Four Freedoms Park Conservancy

Project Description

Park location & venue
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The Four Freedoms Park was founded on the freedoms stated in President FDR’s 1941 State of the Union address: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear, and Freedom of Worship. Each year, the park hosts a benefit for all of its donors and partners.

The FDR Four Freedoms Park : Custom hanging centerpieces

The FDR Four Freedoms Park : Custom centerpieces featurting Amplifier Artwork by Shephard Fairey

The FDR Four Freedoms Park : Custom centerpieces, artwork description and historical context

Project Concept

Create an event that highlights the first of the Four Freedoms: Freedom of Speech and Expression. All event speakers, hosts, décor, and installations to support and celebrate this freedom.

Create custom centerpieces, interactive installations, and takeaways. Celebrate the current wave of activism and protest as a form of expression.

The FDR Four Freedoms Park : Custom centerpieces, paper flowers with first amendment text in varying font sizes

FDR Four Freedoms Park : Guests gather to listen to honorary speaker, journalist Tom Brokaw

FDR Four Freedoms Park : Custom installation, guests respond to prompts about the FDR Presidency

The FDR Four Freedoms Park honors William Vanden Heuvel

I was hired the following year to create an event honoring the park’s founder and his life’s work.

FDR Four Freedoms Park: North, facing event

Project Concept

Honor William Vanden Heuvel for his life’s work in activism and support of each of the Four Freedoms upon which the park was founded.

FDR Four Freedoms Park: Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes, stair graphics

FDR Four Freedoms Park: Custom centerpieces, custom-designed pins in oval vase with fresh florals

FDR Four Freedoms Park: Protest button graphics from the personal collection of Liza Handman. William Vanden Heuvel quote, graphic application on granite.

FDR Four Freedoms Park: Custom Graphics; Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr, William Vanden Heuvel, President Carter, and President FDR.

FDR Four Freedoms Park: Custom Four Freedoms brooches

FDR Four Freedoms Park: Custom Four Freedoms brooches of varying designs

FDR Four Freedoms Park: Graphic application on granite. Photographic display on PVC and vinyl.

Project Details

Creative Direction
Anna Schuliger
Graphic Design
Allison Reynolds
Fallon Kesicier
Photography and Writing
Anna Schuliger
Producer
Anna Schuliger
Kryssa Bowman
Technical Director
John Drescher
Graphic Production
Looks Good NY
Lighting and AV
Oxygen Eventworks