Carytown artist’s work is hanging on the White House Christmas Tree
Style Weekly features an article on Jay Sharpe, an artist with Carytown Jewlers who’s work is currently hanging from George Bush’s Christmas Tree.
Sharpe’s ornament commemorates Maggie L. Walker’s Jackson Ward row house, a National Historic Site. Sharpe used gold leafing and a lavender bow inspired by a sash Walker was photographed wearing. Because it represented a female, Sharpe says, “it had to have a soft edge and look pretty and not be a ball of confusion.”
The other ornament from Richmond that was selected for the White House’s tree was created by Paul DiPasquale, the sculptor who infamously designed the Arthur Ashe statue on Monument Ave (aka, Arthur Ashe playing keep-away with books while hitting children with his raquet).
