American LOVE Project_062
Item
- Title
- American LOVE Project_062
- Alternative Title
- American LOVE Project
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2021-2022
- Description
- The image shows an open journal with two pages filled with text and illustrations. The left page is primarily white with text discussing "About 29 Pieces". It includes a red square graphic stating "29 Pieces Monumental Change Monumental Art". The page explains the origin and mission of 29 Pieces, focused on social change and education through art. The right page describes "The Dallas Love Project" with a logo incorporating the word “LOVE” using a heart shape for the “O”. Below it are statistics related to the project: "10,000 Pieces of Art. 20,000 Artists. 67 Exhibit Venues. 300 Volunteers. 185,000,000 Media Impressions." There is a photograph of a young person holding an art piece. Several colorful, labeled tabs are visible protruding from the top of the journal, indicating various sections such as "Anne Frank" and "Lorraine Lienemann".
- Identifier
- 2021_010621 to 2022 060222_The American LOVE Project Journal
- Dates Completed
- January 6, 2021 - June 2, 2022
- Keywords
- Insurrection; January 6; US Capitol; Texas freeze; Infrastructure fragility; Political instability; Power outage; Water disruption; Internet loss; Medical services disruption; Mail delay; Dallas weather; Lorraine Lienemann; Cancer; Grief; P. Nut; Sparky; Cat loss; 22-year-old cats; American LOVE Project; 29 Pieces; Violence response; National project; Art installation; Washington DC; Covid resurgence; Online gallery; Student art; Educator art; 24 states; Team collaboration; Project outcome; theamericanloveproject.org; Anne Frank; Diary takeaways; Lessons learned; Studio visit; Darryl Ratcliff; Journal viewing; Strategic shift
- Transcription
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Page 1 "29 Pieces [square logo] About 29 Pieces The seeds of 29 pieces were planted with a bullet, the bullet that murdered a man in front of Founder Karen Blessen’s house. A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and illustrator, Karen reacted to the tragedy by using the tools of her profession.
Engaging, involving and inspiring our country’s youth to use art to learn, share and live the ideals of non-violence and kindness became the unifying goal of the organization known as 29 Pieces founded by Karen and Dr. Barbara Miller in 2005. Since its inception, 29 Pieces has grown in numbers and impact.
Our Mission
29 Pieces uses art to awaken, uplift and give voice to the creative human spirit to make genuine, positive social change.
Through art-based lessons in social and emotional learning, 29 Pieces has reached more than 120,000 students with its Artists Making a Kinder World curriculum and trained more than 850 educators. AMAKW lessons in English and Spanish are free at artistsmakingakinderworld.org
29 Pieces, a 501 (c)(3) organization, also works with students, professional artists and the community in public sculptures and mural projects."
Page 2 "THE DALLAS LOVE PROJECT LED BY 29 PIECES, 2013 [DALLAS LOVE PROJECT logo] Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Dallas was labeled as a “City of Hate.”
Fifty years later, through the Dallas LOVE Project, it came together to express itself as a city where love thrives. 29 Pieces created & produced the Dallas LOVE Project, in partnership with more than 120 community partners.
10,000 Pieces of Art. 20,000 Artists. 67 Exhibit Venues. 300 Volunteers. 185,000,000 Media Impressions.
[Photo of a young person holding art] More than 20,000 people participated in the Dallas Love Project, creating over 10,000 pieces of LOVE art, making it the largest city-wide art exhibition in history. This art was exhibited at 67 vanues across Dallas, mostly along the Kennedy motorcade route.
The Dallas LOVE Project was covered extensively by the national and international press – including The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Al Jazeera and Swiss, German and Canadian news outlets – creating 185 million estimated media impressions." - Rights
- To inquire about usage, please contact Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.
- Is Part Of
- American Love Project
- Relation
- Image Gallery