Project Information

Lead Artists

Assitant Artists

Participants

None

Neighborhood

Google Map of Albany, NY

Location

207-11 89th AvenueQueens Village, NY 11427United States

Theme

Medium

Dimensions

30 in diameter

Year

2009

Funders

    None

Groundswell and the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) designed the Traffic Safety Sign Residency Program to engage public school students in exploring traffic safety information through the creation of original street signs. Signs designed collaboratively by students at each of our partner schools are digitally rendered by Groundswell artists, fabricated by NYC DOTs Sign Shop, and temporarily installed in local locations students identify as in need of traffic signage. Through this program, students learn how signs and symbols can work to communicate ideas and explore visual art techniques to develop graphic images. These signs then help increase safety awareness and prevent accidents in locations around each school community. Students from PS 135Q in Queens used the iconic symbol of the hand and a child kicking a ball across a street to represent the danger and the need to "Stop, Look, and Listen."