“Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.”

The Wall of Remembrance

The Wall of Remembrance project was initiated by Estelle and Arthur Alpert, long time Galveston residents whose son died of AIDS. From this intimate perspective, they felt the need for a suitable memorial of national merit that could attract public attention on the devastation wreaked by AIDS. Through the course of their experience, the Alperts also came to realize that very little solace is offered to those left behind by the death of a loved one. The Wall of Remembrance Charitable Trust, was formed to raise funds for a public art sculpture that could be enjoyed by the citizens of Galveston. Upon the memorial’s completion, it was gifted to ACCT.

2022 Bronze Restoration

  • Sculpture prior to restoration.

  • Sculpture mid-way through restoration.

  • Sculpture after restoration.

  • A special thank you to Bob & Judith Pringle for their amazing work restoring the bronze sculpture in the Wall of Remembrance Garden. 16 years of salt air had taken its toll on the sculpture, but now, the beautiful deep patina glows in the morning light once again.

  • The loss of someone we love leaves us with a hollow emptiness that can never quite be filled again by anyone else. Part of that emptiness always remains bandaged within us. This bronze figure represents that human grief. It stands humbled with head bowed before the Wall - this Wall that ultimately symbolizes the landscape of our common grief. Over time, stone will be joined by stone in a gesture of collective remembrance to those we have loved and lost.

  • “…Flowers are a good metaphor for life. Life withers, it fades like a flower…For that reason flowers are an apt symbol for passing. While flowers seem to be a good metaphor for the brevity of life, stones seem better suited for the permanence of memory. Stones do not die.”

    David J. Wolpe

  • The Wall of Remembrance, 2006

    Sculptors: T.J. Dixon & James Nelson

    Garden designed in collaboration with Gerald Vander Mey, ASLA & Seamon, Whiteside and Associates, Inc. Landscape Architects.