Steven Weitzman is going to bring a civil rights icon to life in the U.S. Capitol.
Weitzman, 70, has been a full-time artist since he was 19 and it’s the only job he’s ever known. The Montgomery County, Maryland, resident has produced sculptures at his Prince George’s County studio of other deceased, well-known Black leaders, such as four-time D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
“It was preordained with me,” Weitzman said. “Going to school, [it was] me just waiting, waiting, waiting, going through the motions to grow up enough to get out of school so I can be an artist.”
