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Steven Weitzman founded Weitzman Studios, Inc. in 1995 as the entity to handle the number of commissions he was awarded for site-specific public art installations. Since that time he has created dozens of projects including outdoor urban environments, commemorative and figurative sculptures, as well as major highway installations and bridge designs. In 1998, he founded Creative Design Resolutions, Inc. (CDR) to address the aesthetic needs of highway infrastructure and urban development projects. Shortly after that, he also established Creative Form Liners, Inc. (CFL), a leading manufacturer of custom form liners and FŌTERA^®, a full colored structural concrete.

Integrated environments that encourage viewer participation and community involvement have been the focus of Steven's career since 1971. He began a successful professional career as a freelance illustrator and painter in Boulder, Colorado, and over the next several years, he received numerous art and design awards for his graphic designs. Quickly his work expanded to include fine art and large-scale public art installations, and throughout the 1980's sculpture dominated his artwork. In 1985 Weitzman garnered international recognition when he created a sculpture on the United Nations' grounds in New York City that was dedicated for the United Nations' fortieth anniversary. In 1989 the Smithsonian Institution commissioned Steven to create a 30' sculpture for the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. An estimated four million people observed the artist at work during the two years it took to carve the white oak.

Steven's interest for context sensitive solutions fully emerged during the latter part of the 1990s when his companies CDR and CFL were founded to design and fabricate projects for highway infrastructure and urban development. It was during this period that Steven's artwork took on an increasingly monumental scale. His highway installation along Interstate 54, for example, spans two continuous miles. His bridge enhancements across the country have won five industry awards. A newly cast, heroic-sized, bronze sculpture of Frederick Douglass was commissioned to be installed in the U.S. Capitol. "Chesapeake Journey" is his largest and most recent project created in FŌTERA^® structural concrete. It covers 1,618 square feet and serves as the hardscape for a balcony at the new $4B National Harbor Development near Washington, D.C. on the Potomac River.

Weitzman invented FŌTERA^® structural concrete in 1988. Since then the medium is slowly becoming the most sought after product for full color in structural concrete. Commonly used to integrate aesthetics into the architecture of an environment, the FŌTERA^® product is structural concrete produced from a unique process to cast any image or design in full color. Over these twenty years, it has remained a simple combination of terrazzo and recycled materials to create the colored concrete, but the designs and applications of Weitzman's unique process have become more diverse.