Shriner's Hospital for Children - Mexico City

Shriner's Hospital for Children - Mexico City is the new home for children from Mexico and Latin America who need orthopedic, burn treatment, or spinal cord injury rehabilitation. For this important international facility, American Art Resources was tasked with creating a world-class art program with special consideration for the culture of both Mexico and Latin America, as well as the very ill children being treated there.

The artwork for this hospital reflects a broad range of Latin communities and embraces the knowledge that many of the patients are residents of the facility, living in the hospital until treatment is complete or even to adulthood. To achieve a balance between the various ages, nationalities and degrees of medical complication of the diverse patient population, American Art Resources applied imagery with both childlike and adolescent themes, bright, saturated colors typically associated with Latin American art and culture, as well as photographic images of well known landmarks of the region and actual pictures of resident-patients placed in prominent care areas.

Art in the main public waiting area features a mobile with over 70 individually-suspended plexiglass Monarch butterflies, creating a sense of wonder for the viewer and movement in the 40-foot tall space, and a large mural depicting Hispanic children at play. The overall effect of the art program is one of hope, creativity, and culture.