Mother of Exiles
Jennifer Visocky O’Grady and Ken Visocky O’Grady2016
AIGA, the professional association for design
New York, NY, United States
“…and her name Mother of Exiles.”
—Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus (inscribed on The Statue of Liberty)
This image celebrates a nation of immigrants—and the imperative for each citizen, native born or naturalized, to cast their ballot and share their unique voice.
“Vote” is featured on the poster in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish, all options for the audio tour at the Statue of Liberty. Recent census data notes more than 40 languages in active use across the United States of America.
We asked colleagues and acquaintances, friends and family to provide the translations. That interaction made the act of design an homage to our civic ideals and multi-cultural identity.
Get Out the Vote, AIGA’s civic engagement initiative, part of Design for Democracy.
In partnership with the League of Women Voters: vote411.org
- Title: Mother of Exiles
- Creator: Jennifer Visocky O’Grady, Ken Visocky O’Grady
- Date Created: 2016
- Location Created: Cleveland, Ohio
- Physical Dimensions: 22 x 34 inches
- Type: Poster
- Original Source: AIGA Get Out the Vote
- Rights: Designer retains the copyright and agrees to distribute under a Creative Commons “Attribution-NoDerivs” license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
- External Link: AIGA Design for Democracy
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