The Georgia's Own Credit Union building in 性视界传媒 Atlanta honors Former President Jimmy Carter with a massive mural in the city skyline on Presidents Day.
The portraits of Carter are 450 feet in the air, on the building's marquee and span the length of two basketball courts, according to a news release.
Georgia's Own Credit Union worked with the Emory听Ethics听& the Arts Program when commissioning this project, and Dane Jefferson was the local artist recommended by the program's leadership.
"I was thrilled when I got the call to create a mural honoring President Carter. He has had such a long and amazing career听as a听leader and a role model, so when I began working on this project, I really wanted to capture the different periods in his life as a public servant," said Dane Jefferson.听
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The mural progresses through his lifetime of public service. The first image is of a younger Carter when he represented Georgia as Governor. The second portrays President Carter and the third represents him in his later years, as a global ambassador and humanitarian.听听
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Jefferson added how he "limited the color palette听to three colors to make the image as impactful as possible, and used colors that are relatively close to red, white, and blue."
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He describes the experience of seeing it in the skyline as "just incredible."
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Georgia's Own Credit Union is at 100 Peachtree Street in Atlanta.
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