2021-06-14T13:16:55-05:00 2020-12-31 BRUCE E BERNSTIEN & ASSOCIATES 10440 N CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY STE 1040 DALLAS TX 75231 990 2020-01-01 342038797 29 PIECES % KAREN BLESSEN 29PI 2147701219 6327 Vickery Blvd dallas TX 75214 KAREN BLESSEN founder 2147701219 2021-06-11 true KAREN BLESSEN XXX-XX-XXXX BRUCE BERNSTIEN P01424343 2147060840 2 2020 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Karen Isbell 6327 Vickery Blvd dallas TX 75214 196995 false X www.29Pieces.org X 2005 TX 29 PIECES USES ART TO AWAKEN, UPLIFT AND GIVE VOICE TO THE CREATIVE HUMAN SPIRIT TO MAKE GENUINE, POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE. 5 4 1 4 0 177794 196995 26720 0 0 0 524 -62 205038 196933 400 0 0 0 60133 60133 0 0 0 150084 107731 210617 167864 -5579 29069 151324 182228 1644 3479 149680 178749 29 PIECES USES ART TO AWAKEN, UPLIFT AND GIVE VOICE TO THE CREATIVE HUMAN SPIRIT TO MAKE GENUINE, POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE. false false 155304 29 PIECES REPORT: The following report is for the time period of Jan. 1 2020 - Dec. 31, 2020. 29 Pieces Artists Making a Kinder World Legacy Initiative is a three-year project to broaden access, awareness and availability of the 29 Pieces: Artists Making a Kinder World original arts education curriculum. The curriculum consists of 20 original lessons, which uniquely use art to teach positive character and social-emotional skills, and then elevates young people's positive voices in the community through public exhibit of their art. This program is in its 14th consecutive year, reaching over 160,000 Dallas-Fort Worth students and 1,200 teachers through lesson facilitation and professional development workshops. Successes In the second year of our effort to broaden awareness and access to our free arts education curriculum, 29 Pieces made the following strides: Website We launched our dedicated website (www. artistsmakingakinderworld.org) in 2019 with 8 core lessons and enrichment supplements. In 2020, we added four additional lesson kits in English and Spanish for free download to any interested person worldwide. Those kits included the: CURIOSITY, FORGIVENESS, DREAMCATCHER, and SOULS HIDDEN lessons. Lesson kits include collateral teaching materials, and all include individual introductory trailers and accompanying enrichment resources. As planned, we have also launched our shop, featuring 29 Pieces' original art on clothing and a variety of accessories: https://amakw29shop.myshopify.com/ Region 10 Education Service Center Trainings In June 2020, 29 Pieces formed a partnership with Region 10 ESC to offer teacher trainings in Artists Making a Kinder World curriculum. Region 10 serves as host and promotion partner for monthly online trainings led by Karen Blessen, focusing on one lesson per month. (For example, in the past four months has hosted our teacher trainings in THRIVE (February 2021), FORGIVENESS (March 2021), HOPE (April 2021), and IMAGINE (May 2021) lessons ). Following training, teachers are equipped to facilitate lessons in their own classrooms. Teachers receive professional development credits for attending. Marketing 29 Pieces began daily social media promotion of Artists Making a Kinder World curriculum, featuring the content and applications of one lesson per month (coordinated with the training offered through Region 10). Daily promotion of Artists Making a Kinder World is conducted on Facebook (on the 29 Pieces page and via a dedicated private group), Instagram and Twitter. Cool Schools THRIVE Lesson One of 29 Pieces' primary focuses in 2020 was the design, production, and installation of art for six public parks located on six Dallas ISD elementary school campuses - a project in partnership with the Trust for Public Land as part of their mission to make greenspace available to all Dallas citizens within a 10 minute walk. This opportunity availed 29 Pieces the opportunity to engage teachers, students and administrators at each of the campuses in our THRIVE lesson, a lesson inviting the imagination of a "garden of peace." Students' art offered a template of motifs that professional artists drew upon in designing a large custom mural for each school. Participating Dallas ISD Elementary schools included: Frank Guzick and John Ireland (Southeast); Arturo Salazar (South); Sam Houston (Central); Reinhardt (Northeast); David G. Burnet (Northwest). Amidst the distancing required of us during a pandemic, we were pleased to have the opportunity to work with individual schools in conducting the THRIVE lesson - and to involve so many students in using their imagination to explore the natural world! 2020-2021 COOL SCHOOLS PROJECT: 5 of 6 Sites JOHN IRELAND ELEMENTARY, DALLAS ISD: 8 ft x 24 ft. mural art by students and artist Billy Hassell. DAVID G. BURNET ELEMENTARY, DALLAS ISD: 8 ft x 32 ft. mural art by students and artist Alejandra Camargo. ARTURO SALAZAR ELEMENTARY, DALLAS ISD: 40 ft x 18 ft. mural art by students and artist Jorge Gutierrez. FRANK GUZICK ELEMENTARY, DALLAS ISD: 8 ft x 32 ft. mural art by students and artist Abi Salami. REINHARDT ELEMENTARY, DALLAS ISD: 12 ft x 32 ft. and 12 ft.x 24 ft. mural art by students and artist Ray Mel Cornelius. NAEA Presentation Lastly, (but definitely not least!), 29 Pieces was included among presenters at the National Art Educators Association (NAEA) annual meeting in March 2021. Karen Blessen and Grand Prairie Visual Arts Coordinator, Judy Stone- Nunneley, presented the 29 Pieces LOVE lesson to a national audience of art educators with the invitation to join in a national LOVE project. The presentation served as the kick-off for The American LOVE Project, inviting schools and individuals from across the nation to create LOVE art in response to the Capitol insurrection in Washington DC on January 6, 2021. All student art will be featured in an online gallery and in physical installations - locally and in Washington DC in 2022. Challenges Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic created many challenges for 29 Pieces in 2020. The virus and stay-at-home orders beginning in March 2020 caused a temporary stoppage in our programming and necessitated changes in staff workflows and service delivery. In particular, we had to redesign teacher trainings through Region 10 as well as lesson facilitation at six Dallas elementary schools participating in the Cool Schools project for online environments. This included additional work to significantly rethink programming sequences and interactions, create instructional videos, and communicate changes to our partners and participants. Additionally, we shelved plans for 29 Pieces "15 Year Anniversary" celebration to honor our work from 2005-2020. This ongoing celebration would also have served us in a public relations and fundraising capacity - generating awareness and thanking/stewarding relationships with donors. These challenges slowed our work and had financial impacts in the forms of: (1) fulfilling obligations to pay for design and strategy work done on projects that had to be shelved or abandoned, (2) requiring significant work and time to redesign services for an online environment, and (3) disrupting workflows affecting not just 29 Pieces but our partners with whom we had contracted for these projects. Despite the significant challenges and tolls imposed by the crisis of the pandemic we all weathered together, 29 Pieces is very grateful to continue into 2021 with an exciting programming direction, solid partnerships, and a strong financial footing going into our final year of the Legacy Initiative - taking it national with The American LOVE Project! 155304 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false 15 0 true 1 false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false 5 4 false false false false false false false true true false false true false true false false false false X KAREN BLESSEN 2147701219 6327 VICKERY BLVD dallas TX 75214 Karen Blessen EXECUTIVE Director 1.0 0.0 X X 60133 0 0 Sondra Cox Vice-President 1.0 0.0 X X 0 0 0 Diana O Connor Secretary 1.0 0.0 X X 0 0 0 Kelly Nash board member 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 Karen Isbell president 1.0 0.0 X X 0 0 0 60133 0 0 0 false false false 0 196995 196995 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62 -62 0 196933 0 0 0 0 60133 60133 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3263 3035 228 0 0 0 70233 63903 6330 1209 1201 8 3769 3512 257 328 295 33 0 10560 9821 739 242 225 17 0 35 35 0 0 3518 3518 2493 2319 174 GRANT APPLICATION WRITING 2980 2380 600 CLEANING SERVICES 2600 2418 182 CAR INSURANCE 1765 1641 124 CLEANING SERVICES 1330 1251 79 3406 3135 271 167864 155304 12560 0 127583 162487 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2387 1906 23799 16763 10555 7036 10799 10799 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 151324 182228 1644 3479 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1644 3479 X 149680 178749 0 0 149680 178749 151324 182228 29069 X false false false X 274094 245194 151108 177794 196995 1045185 0 0 274094 245194 151108 177794 196995 1045185 540690 504495 0 0 15 547 15 333 910 1046095 32553 0.48226 0.46389 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 17591 10554 7036 6208 6208 7036 FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 2 family relationship between board members: Kelly Nash and Karen Blessen are married FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 11B PRIOR TO FILING THE FORM 990, A COPY OF FORM 990 IS PROVIDED TO EACH BOARD MEMBER TO REVIEW AND PROVIDE COMMENTS FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 19 THE ORGANIZATION MAKES ITS DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST