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Love Project
Love Project
Where does love thrive in your community?
Where does love thrive in your community?
The LOVE Project offers a highly accessible opportunity for your class to amplify Love where your community needs it most.
The first Love Project took place in Dallas in 2013 on the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination. That terrible tragedy in the minds of many marked Dallas as a “City of Hate.” Yet, citizens of Dallas also know Dallas as a place where love thrives. To honor the memory of JFK, 29 Pieces recruited 20,000 citizens to make LOVE art and exhibited 10,000 pieces of art along JFK’s motorcade route on that fateful day.
Public Exhibits
Public Exhibits
Art broadcasts deeply important messages. So, we have developed several models using art to stage city-wide campaigns, lifting our collective voice to amplify our highest shared values in our communities. Exhibiting art in public places teaches all of us – young and old – just how powerful our influence can be.
Respect Project
Let’s make RESPECT go viral!
The RESPECT Project is a powerful way to voice collective RESPECT for other people, the planet, and ourselves. Respect art reminds all viewers that everyone deserves honor. Taking the high road eventually comes back around! So, let’s start a Respect contagion!
29 Pieces launched the first RESPECT Project during the 2016 presidential election when tensions were running high, and communities were experiencing high levels of anxiety stemming from toxic public discourse. We challenged everyone in our city to pledge respect in word and deed. The mayor was the first to sign on! 20,000 students, teachers, and members of religious communities joined the effort to use their influence as citizens to call forth respect where it is due.
Teachers Speak
Teachers are some of our most valuable public assets, but do we celebrate their gifts or make their needs a priority often enough?
In fact, one national study finds that teaching is the fourth most stressful profession in America. The Teachers Speak public campaign offers a model to mobilize public understanding of teachers’ challenges, elevate them before the public, and do it in a way that publicly celebrates the noble calling of teaching. The goal is not only to inspire gratitude for teachers but to showcase the rewards of supporting teachers’ social-emotional wellbeing. If desired, this campaign can serve as a platform for initiating policy change in communities and districts
Students Speak
We know for a fact that children need consistent attachments to adults in their lives. When home life is unstable, teachers are next in line for the support that students need. Teachers are so powerful! The Students Speak public campaign amplifies the importance of educators by showcasing student-made portraits of select teachers, portraying what students need and love most about them. Students Speak complements the Teachers Speak campaign, but it can also stand on its own. With luck, it may inspire some students to pursue teaching as their own vocation!
Public Sculptures
29 Pieces was founded with the vision to create 29 Pieces of Monumental Art for Monumental Change. Each sculpture is inspired by a phrase from a passage handed down through a major world tradition – Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, and Native American. In 2015, ten years after our founding, we began creating sculpture in earnest. With two completed, Piece 24 based on a Lakota Sioux prayer and Piece 10 based on a Jewish poem, we continue pursuing our vision to complete all 29 sculptures.
