This object is currently on display in room 107 as part of Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols. See our image rights statement.

 

Object Timeline

  • We acquired this object.

2010

  • Work on this object began.

2023

2025

  • You found it!

Reproduction, Experiments Toward New Accessible Icon Sticker on Reserved Parking Sign, Wenham, Massachusetts

This is a Reproduction. It is dated 2010. Its medium is photograph. It is a part of the department.


Sara Hendren and Brian Glenney began The Accessible Icon Project by altering wheelchair-accessible parking signs in the Boston area with more dynamic vinyl heads and bodies. The next stage used a transparent sticker with a figure in motion laid over the static original. This iteration made the change visible. With the success of this large street art campaign, Hendren and Glenney partnered with designer Tim Ferguson-Sauder to redraw the icon to professional standards. It is now available for free use by anyone anywhere.

It is credited Courtesy of Sara Hendren and Brian Glenney.

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This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols.

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