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Client: Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center
Location: Phoenix, AZ, United States
Completion date: 2007
Artwork budget: $40,000
Project Team
Artist
John Randall Nelson
Nelson Public Art
Letters fabricator
Gretchen Wilde
Airpark Signs and Graphics
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Overview
Aluminum letters and ceramic tiles, 5’ x 20’ x 8’, 2007. Located at SARRC (Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center) at 18th St. and Van Buren St., Phoenix, AZ.
Seven concept-based illustrations address the unique challenges of parents raising Autistic children. “To the world you might be one person … but to one person you might be the world.”
Goals
The goal of this project was to create a signature artwork for the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Process
This project applies seven concept-based illustrations which address the unique challenges of parents raising autistic children. A Sterling World is the end result of a collaboration between SARRC, Airpark Signs and Graphics, and our studio.