ABOUT US
GREAT AMERICAN ART
WHO WE ARE
FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS,
GAA has curated transformational and customized art programs for organizations nationwide. Whether it’s a single waiting area, a new wing, an entire facility, or multiple facilities, you can count on us to deliver while meeting budgets and deadlines. Leave the planning to us, or let us guide you every step of the way. We collaborate with organizations of every shape, size, and budget — across healthcare, senior living, corporate, government, and more.
Partnering with dealers and their clients, we provide turnkey art and design solutions tailored to fit any need.
WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF ART.
Our mission is to use the power of art to inspire, heal, provoke, challenge, offer hope and MOST of all, to connect. To remind us all of our shared humanity.
EVIDENCE-BASED DESIGN
WE ARE AN EDAC ADVOCATE
FIRM
Research has proven that certain art helps patients better handle pain, fear, and stress. The statistics show us that artwork improves both the patient’s quality of care, as well as the healthcare staff’s morale and general well-being.
While EBD has been proven effective in healthcare, peer reviewed studies have also shown it’s utility in all industries as an investment strategy by
• Boosting a company’s morale
• Establishing a communal or company identity
• Encouraging creativity and positivity in the workplace
Our primary goal is to ensure the art programs we design, benefit those they serve while contributing to your client’s mission, purpose, and community in a meaningful and uplifting way.
• Our design solutions are rooted in research
• We have EBD Art Curators on staff
HOW WE PARTNER PARTNERSHIP
We understand the needs of each project.
We ensure we are creating art programs that have an emotionally positive impact on the intended viewers. We own the entire process from requirements gathering including establishing deadlines and budgets, through design, to production and installation.
There is a very real power in art. Art influences our sense of place and communicates how we should think, feel, and behave within any given environment.
INDUSTRIES WE SERVE PARTNERSHIP
HEALTHCARE
Each art program is as unique as the space and community to which it brings beauty, comfort, and positive thoughts.
CORPORATE
For many years, workplace interiors were less evocative and inspired. Studies have shown that incorporating art in the workplace boosts company morale, alleviates stress and provides an environment that enhances company culture and identity.
HOSPITALITY
Art is a key element in the communication of the ethos and style of hospitality settings. Distinctive art, together with interiors, come together in rich aesthetic and emotional ways to create an atmosphere that contributes to a memorable guest experience.
GOVERNMENT
The operations, activities, and settings of government institutions are open to a diversity of inventive representation that communicates their significance in fresh ways.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Establishing the risk level of behavioral health in a space allows for us to offer design and art solutions that are safe, effective, and regulatory for each and every space.
EDUCATION
We use art as a way to inspire and motivate. Artwork used in educational centers and schools have proven to increase productivity, motivation and overall well being for both student and staff.
SENIOR LIVING
We offer custom solutions for a variety of Senior Living settings with all with different needs.
OUR PORTFOLIO
OUR PROCESS
PARTNERSHIP
It is our job to understand our clients. Our team of experts collaborate to understand the vision, the wants and the needs of each project. We collaborate to creatively problem solve and arrive at the best solutions.
We function as active thought partners to facilitate the most successful outcome for the project as a whole.
FLOORPLANS
The Design Team marks up the floorplan with suggested art placements and submits back for confirmation of placements against any unforeseen obstructions.
A budget is drafted based on placements, substrate, and image type and submitted to clients for approval.
DESIGN
Based on the approved floorplans and budget, the design process begins with the Design Team creating an image selector document for approval.
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PROPOSAL
We create a full art program proposal. Next, the team works through rounds of feedback and revisions as necessary until the client is satisfied with the vision.
Artwork is finalized and placed into a floorplan.
PRODUCTION
Our GAA Production Team completes the ordering and manufacturing of artwork. Coordinate with artists for commissioned pieces (if selected).
INSTALLATION
Our Installation Coordinators provide all install logistics. Art installers unpack, organize, prep, walk-through, install, clean up.
Our Project Management team provides final walk through for inspection, identify artwork exchange requests, gather feedback for final report.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Our Project Management Team is responsible for creating comprehensive timelines that carry the teams through the entire working process.
We provide:
• Weekly and Bi-Weekly Check Ins
• Team Reviews
• Meeting Pre-Reads
• D etailed Meeting Recaps
• Site Visits and more…
CUSTOMIZED DESIGN
GAA SPECIALIZES IN SOURCING
LOCAL ART ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
We know how to create just the right mix of original art, sculptural art, reproductions of fine art prints and photographs — curated collections of imagery that can engage as a whole, as well as individually.
“Seasons Turn, Pause & Renew” by Rachael McCampbell © 2022
7.5’ x 8’h, computerized and motorized panels, 4 paintings total.
ARTIST PARTNERSHIP
Curating artwork for a space that is familiar and reinforces a sense of identity and speaks to the community it serves is very important to us.
We have the ability to connect and partner with local photographers and artists to provide an art solution for you that is custom and unique.
LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Artwork selection is essential, it is important that our selections reinforce a sense of community. Using the local surroundings and familiar imagery from the environment brings our clients a sense of localized design that sets us apart from the competitors.
We have a team of photographers that we can dispatch and offer custom shoots of any location. GAA handles all of the logistics of the local photoshoots and we build the cost into the final budget. We offer one package for all photoshoots with no individual usage rights.
CUSTOM DESIGN
SUBSTRATES WE OFFER
ALUMINUM
With it’s more modern look, aluminum offers several benefits.
CANVAS
Custom-framed, gallery-wrapped, or float-framed, canvas offers a range of looks from traditional to contemporary while maintaining it’s familiar, organic qualities.
ACOUSTIC TILE
This solution offers the best of both worlds: It combines commercial-grade ambient noise management and engaging art.
ACRYLIC
With it’s more modern look, acrylic offers several options. From gloss and non-glare finishes to multiple thicknesses, it allows customization for purpose and presentation.
FRAMED PRINTS
We offer a wide variety of framed and matted prints. The sky’s the limit.
FILMS
Window and ceiling films offer form and function.
Natural or artificial lighting backlights beautiful artwork, while transparent or opaque backing options allow for control of light pass-through for varying levels of privacy.
PVC
Economical without sacrificing image quality or durability, PVC is the perfect solution for maximizing coverage and minimizing cost.
WALLPAPER
Wallpaper with crisp, high-resolution imagery can create an immersive and striking solution that easily withstands the rigors of day-to-day wear and tear.
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNIT (CEU)
WHAT IS A CEU?
It stands for a Continuing Education Unit which is a learning program we have created to educate communities about
Evidence Based Design
COURSE DESCRIPTION
As research continues to shed light on the documented benefits of art on wellbeing, more organizations are seeking to use art for more than its decorative properties.
This CEU seeks to educate specifiers on the research that supports art’s impact on a building’s occupants, and how it can be used to support the overarching goals of the project.
INSTALLATION
• Multiple, regionally located, production facilities
• Ensures we can meet the timelines we agree to, while meeting the demands of volume of art pieces across the country
• D edicated GAA installation management coordinators
• Art installers that are true professionals and skilled in the industry of art installations