About

Who Are Our Neighbors? is a public art initiative to heal divides and create unity across the city of Dallas. An ongoing project led by Sharing Sacred Spaces, Inc. in partnership with Thanks-Giving Foundation and Dallas Housing Authority, the initiative was selected as part of the 2024 Our Town grant program to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Further funding support has been generously provided by Dallas Housing Authority and the Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.

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The art initiative has invited eight local artists to create works that will uplift and highlight exemplary community members who have crossed lines of difference and served to better the greater Dallas community. The public art display will invite Dallas residents into creative visions of a healthier, more connected future based on kindness, caring, commitment to one another, and common humanity.

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Launched in September 2024, Who Are Our Neighbors? began with soliciting community stories about local bridge-building efforts. As people nominated their neighbors, Sharing Sacred Spaces built out a database of local heroes to form the basis of the art display, and to encourage others to follow their example!

 

On Sunday, June 22nd, 2025, the final artworks will be introduced at a public ceremony at Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas, and then distributed to distinct locations across north and south Dallas for ongoing tours accompanied by artist talks, activities, and dialogues. The artworks will then be installed in their permanent homes across Dallas as beacons of hope to combat loneliness and division, and as inspiration and reasons for ongoing tours and gatherings.

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You can learn more about the initiative, the work we do as Sharing Sacred Spaces, and the concurrent Interreligious Communities Project at sharingsacredspaces.org.