Tomorrow, students from Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, Maya Angelou High School for pregnant teens and Parish Episcopal will present will present a “homelessness” arts project to members of the Dallas City Council next Wednesday, May 9. This project is called “IF” Lesson and was developed by 29 Pieces and highlights the student’s vision of how to improve the lives of the homeless in the DFW community. 

The “IF” Lesson was taught to more than 175 students, in which 29 Pieces wanted to teach the students how to encourage members in their community to help those in need using the power of art.  In addition to the Dallas City Council presentation, the student-created artwork will also be featured in exhibits at City Hall, the Dallas Public Library and at 29 Pieces’ corporate office.

We have recently partnered with the Maya Angelou High School for pregnant teens, in which we taught the students our MasterPEACE program.  The lessons from the program instruct and build skills with a unique mix of art projects, real-life improvisation and spoken performance.

29 Pieces been selected as one of eight finalists for a Texas Women for the Arts grants!  If selected to receive a grant, the funds would support our MasterPEACE program.  Click here to learn more about the program:  MasterPEACE

Come out to the 2012 Deep Ellum Art Walk, in which the public can enjoy art viewing, shopping, music, food and drink. The event is free and most people can easily walk from gallery to gallery.

29 Pieces will have student-created on display in their offices.  Make sure you check us out!

Ladder for Booker T. Washington, 1996, by Martin Puryear. 
At the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

”Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue. But all beautiful things, inherently, have this function — to excite the viewers toward sublime thought. Glory to the world, that good teacher.”  — Mary Oliver 

Photo by Man Ray

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29 Pieces celebrates Wangari Maathai day!  She has accomplished great things such as becoming the first women in East and Central Aftrica to earn a doctorate degree, and becoming the first African American women to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

The artwork above was created by MasterPEACE students as part of the Great Peacemakers lesson, in which children are introduced to 12 heroic peacemakers. Then the children are challenged to learn about the peacemakers and “walk in their shoes” as they create a portrait of them. 

“Our Valentine to the World”

The LOVE lesson is one of the 14 project based lessons of the MasterPEACE: Young Artists Making a Kinder World, the core program of 29 Pieces.  The core message of this lesson is the broader meaning of “love,” and how love is the source or foundation of the emotions we associate with peace.  The LOVE lesson is a seasonal lesson taught weeks prior to February 14th. 

The 2nd Annual Who Are You? Masquerade Ball and Mask Auction benefiting 29 Pieces is Green Bandana’s biggest party of the year - and we are pulling out all the stops for this wonderful organization.

There will be complimentary hors d’oeuvres by Chef Richard Pratt.

Musically, The Carlos Young Band will heat things up, The Sweet Corn Quartet will be a revelation, and the legendary Hot Flash (DJs Tony Schwa, Joel Killtronix, and Genova) will keep you dancing all night long.

We will have a live mask auction with masks designed by talented local artists.

And just in case that wasn’t enough we will be having roving ambient performances by Hypnotist, Fire Breather, and Guinness Book of World Records Sword Swallower, Rodderick Russell and The Circus Freaks.

All of this to raise money for one of the best arts nonprofits in Dallas - 29 Pieces.