Ed Dwight’s ‘monumental’ works fill critical gap
Even as a child, Ed Dwight had a gift for art. But he set that talent aside to focus on careers that included engineer, test pilot, astronaut trainee (the first African American in the program) and entrepreneur.
It was as the owner of a large construction company, Dwight says, that his childhood love for creating art reawakened. “What I was doing with the construction company was just taking scrap material that was left over and I was bringing it home to my garage,” he recalls. “I just taught myself to weld to make some art for my house.”
A life-changing commission
The amateur artist turned professional 25 years ago, when Colorado’s first African American lieutenant governor picked Ed Dwight to sculpt a major public statue.
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