Michelle Boggess-Nunley
Artist • Illustrator • Maze Creator
Michelle Boggess-Nunley is the current Guinness World Record holder for the largest hand-drawn maze and specializes in creating some of the worlds most complex illustrated mazes. She's an international artist, illustrator, curator and gallery owner working from Detroit, MI. For inquiries about books, articles or artwork, please use the contact form below.
Posterity Art & Framing Gallery
17005 Kercheval Ave, Grosse Pointe, MI 48230
The Ultimate American Road Trip Maze
Inspired by summer travels around the US.
How a Master Maze Maker Gets You Lost
Maze from AJ Jacobs book "The Puzzler"
The 'Path to Giza' maze featured in 'The Puzzler'
Learn about the doodles within the 1,126sq ft maze, find blog about what it was like trying to obtain a Guinness title, and see a list of supporters.
Own a table-top edition of the Art Collab Project
Michelle Boggess-Nunley
Michelle Boggess-Nunley is an international artist, curator, illustrator and maze maker from Detroit, Michigan. She's the current Guinness World Record holder for the Largest Hand-Drawn Maze and specializes in creating some of the world's most complex maze puzzles. Her artwork has been displayed at exhibitions such as Art Revolution Taiwan 2020, A.R.T. Taipei 2022 and ArtExpo NY 2018. She's designed mazes for magazines such as Atlas Obscura, The Guardian and LA comedian Zach Sherwin's 'Crossword Show', and is featured in New York Times bestselling author AJ Jacobs book The Puzzler.
Michelle is the curator of the annual, city-wide art exhibition Art Collab Project, a walkable, month-long art display that spans across 6 blocks of Downtown Grosse Pointe. Art Takeover Project was created to connect community with local artists and businesses across the Village Business District through an interactive display of art.
Michelle is the owner of Posterity Art Gallery located in Grosse Pointe, MI and serves as one of the board of directors for Main Street Grosse Pointe.
In other maze projects, Michelle created the 18 foot Path to Unity maze mural, which highlights the words Unity and Love in languages from around the globe, and has executed a 12ft interactive maze puzzle, created for ArtPrize 2021, challenging it's solvers down winding paths while passing through world wonders, famous landmarks and historical events along the way. She's the creator of Wizard World Illustrated Mazes book series, as well as several other maze and children's books.
“We all have little quirks that make us unique. Plant those quirks instead of suppressing them. Water them. Let them grow into big, beautiful, weird looking gardens for the world to see.”