The art-based education curriculum of 29 Pieces
Welcome to the 29 Pieces Education: Artists Making a Kinder World bi-lingual art-based curriculum to awaken and educate every young heart, K-12.
Our curriculum teaches social and emotional skills and positive values to students in a peaceful, creative process. This initiative by 29 Pieces empowers teachers and students to make the world more compassionate and kind through their art!
Artists Making a Kinder World offers hands-on, art-based lessons to teach social-emotional skills and positive values among students in 2nd-12th grade settings. Our lessons are also used for adult workshops in educational, organizational and corporate settings. Each lesson centers on an uplifting theme and is flexible enough to be implemented across the curriculum. This is project-based education at its best.
Dallas-Fort Worth teachers and students have loved this program since 2005, and we now make it available to anyone free of charge. It’s part of our dedication to lifting up the voices that will make the world a more peaceful place.
The American LOVE Project, a 29 Pieces special project, engages schools, organizations, and artists In the United States of America and beyond in the 29 Pieces LOVE Lesson as a positive grassroots response to the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the United States Capitol.
In 2013, Dallas observed the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. In the eyes of some, this tragedy marked Dallas as a “City of Hate.” We knew that wasn’t true. Dallas is filled with citizens who love. So, we recruited 20,000 Dallas citizens to make 10,000 pieces of art to form a chain of unconditional love radiating along Kennedy’s 1963 motorcade route and beyond. Artists, organizers, trainers, and installers all came together to mount perhaps the largest grassroots art installation in history. This remarkable project helped redefine the city through a genuine outpouring of love because, it is true: “Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.” Here you will see how thousands of voices came together to reflect the true character and courage of this remarkable city – and how you can make it happen in your city, too.