Dallas RESPECT Project

The Dallas RESPECT Project uses visual art to empower people to GO VIRAL with respect and set a positive chain reaction in motion by creating thousands of pieces of respect artwork to be displayed throughout the City of Dallas. 29 Pieces is challenging everyone to take The RESPECT Pledge.

We are training hundreds of teachers and teaching artists to facilitate the RESPECT Project lesson in classrooms and community centers. Participants create their own images to send into the world that reflect possibilities of choosing respect for themselves, others and for the earth. In this way, they join the collective effort to use art to make values like RESPECT and COMPASSION spread during a time that is too often fraught fear, anger, and hatred.

Click Here to Sign the Pledge

Project Information

The goal of this project is to enhance quality of life in Dallas by using art to realize the highest social ideals such as respect for all living creatures, social and racial justice, nonviolence, and the importance of creative expression: monumental art for monumental change.

To this end, 29 Pieces seeks to:

Enrich the lives of our students by:
- Supporting cultivation of positive character and values.
- Fostering life skills, which include experience in collaborative teamwork, honoring commitment, nonviolent problem solving, and effective ways of leading and communicating with respect.
- Cultivating professional skills through offering experience in all aspects of a major art project, including project strategy and design, teambuilding, planning, construction and installation – experiences that also involve craftsmanship, attention to detail, and analytical thinking. It also includes experience in interviewing, presentation and public speaking, budgeting, event planning.
Support our public education system by:
- Supplying creative inspiration, revitalization and alternative resources to participating public school teachers.
Contribute to community and economic development of Oak Cliff/South Dallas by:
- Preparing participating students who live in South Dallas for future success by giving them opportunity to assemble individual artistic portfolios as well as exposure to successful entrepreneurs, leaders and executives from the local community and opportunity for one-on-one mentoring.
Engage the broader public in peacemaking through art – regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Our educational programming, furthermore, supplies creative inspiration and needed revitalization for many on public school faculties. DISD teacher, Christine Acker, has described the program’s impact on her in both personal and professional terms:

“Honestly, my reactions have been indescribable. I feel this has spoken volumes to me, and i am so incredibly moved by this (program). This is completely where my heart is right now, and I can’t wait to share it in my classrooms and with the ones I love.”

How to Get Involved

PLEDGE – Click here to Sign the Respect Pledge

SHARE – Challenge other by sharing the pledge on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

TEACH – Come to 29 Pieces and train in the Dallas RESPECT Project curriculum and take the lesson to your groups, classes, place of business, or church. Trainings are FREE and take place at 29 Pieces located at 423 W. Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, Texas 75208.

EXHIBIT – Contact constance@29pieces.org if you would like to offer your place of business, school, church, garden, windows at home or any other place you can think of as a location for the RESPECT artwork.

CONTACT – For more information about trainings and how to get involved email: constance@29pieces.org

Click here to download the lesson