Steven Weitzman


Steven Weitzman is an American public artist and designer known for his figurative sculptures, murals, and aesthetic designs for highway and bridge infrastructure projects.
Weitzman owns and operates three companies. Weitzman Studios, Inc. was started in 1995 and is through which he creates his public and personal art work, including paintings, prints, drawings and large-scale figurative sculpture. The aesthetic infrastructure design firm, Creative Design Resolutions, Inc. was founded in 1998. Working primarily for Departments of Transportation, the design firm specializes in creating context sensitive solutions, a site-specific and community-oriented approach to transportation-related design that takes into consideration the community values, culture, history and environment of a place. His third company, Creative Form Liners, Inc., also established in 1998, fabricates urethane rubber molds or form liners, as well as full-color concrete and resinous terrazzo, a product line under the trademarked name of FŌTERA.

Early life

Steven Weitzman was born in Manhattan, New York, to Martin and Pearl Weitzman. His father, Martin Weitzman, was a multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer, who worked for the poster design division of the Federal Arts Program under the Workers Progress Administration. A selection of his posters are in the collection of The Library of Congress, and one, “See America, Welcome to Montana", was included in the United States Postal Services’ collection of WPA Poster stamps. Weitzman's father died when he was nine months old. After his death, Weitzman's mother moved the family from New York to West Los Angeles, CA.
In 1971, at age nineteen, Weitzman moved to Boulder, Colorado where he embarked on a thirteen-year career as a self-taught graphic designer and illustrator for his own commercial studio. After teaching himself to sculpt and carve wood, Weitzman closed his commercial art practice in 1979 to begin a career as a sculptor on an on-commission basis for local governments and civic groups across the United States, including in Maryland, Florida, and Washington, DC for the Friends of the National Zoo. Examples of his early work can be seen in Washington Entertainment Magazine Aug/Sept '90 issue and in the American Forests February 1986 issue, p. 38.
The artist settled in Maryland in 1984, where he started his three companies between 1995-1998 and worked on numerous regional and national public art and urban design projects, most notably the Frederick Douglass sculpture installed in the United States Capitol in 2012; the 1,600 square foot concrete terrazzo mural, “The Belvedere,” located at National Harbor in Maryland, the bronze statue of former mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion S. Barry for the District of Columbia; as well as creating aesthetic master plans for the states of Oklahoma and Ohio.

Selected works and projects

Weitzman has received extensive coverage in the regional and national press through more than 80 interviews, articles, and reviews. Highlights include the following: