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| Written by Andrea Miller | ||||||
| Friday, 05 February 2010 16:01 | ||||||
While embracing the tapestry of American social culture, his art in bronze, has memorialized such diverse American experiences as Mary McLeod Bethune, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Presidents George Washington & George Herbert Bush. His true legacy however, is providing the world with a talent that captures the essence of the human character -- its suffering, its spirit, its longing to live free, and even its humor and oft forgot, joys. During a tour of duty in Germany, while serving in the US Army in the turbulent 1960's, he was trained as a draftsman. Once out of uniform, he spent the next ten years working as a civil engineer and teaching himself and enjoying his new pastime: sculpting. However, by the early eighties, his hobby had become a second career, with numerous commissions for his work, including winning the opportunity to reproduce a miniature merchandisable version of the Frederick Hart Sculpture honoring Vietnam Veterans.
He has completed over 200 works of art in bronze, wood, and granite. To help improve communities in the Washington Metropolitan region, Jeffries formed a non-profit Spirits of Love, Inc. to raise funds to train inner city youth. He also started a second business abbreviated M.A.C.E.O (Memorials, Architects, Civil Engineers, Operations. Corp.) to improve the communities’ economic conditions. He continues to inspire and build communities with his art and social programs from his home in Virginia. The Reasonable Voice is so proud to present MACEO JEFFRIES, a seasoned artist who's work continues to inspire his audience, as the tragedies and comedies that have filled his life, continue to imbue his art. He is indeed, a HUMAN BEING!
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The life and career of Maceo Jeffries stands as a testament to the creative ability of the human spirit. A native of Duquwane, PA, he started sculpting at age seven and has since traveled the world as a self-taught sculptor, a civil engineer, and an entrepreneur & educator.
Often as he works on clay statues, powerful emotions require him to put down his sculpting knives. Many of the viewers of his art have similarly strong reactions to his creations. When several Catholic nuns saw his sculpture of Jesus, they knelt and began to pray.
The Reasonable Voice
Neither preacher, prophet nor politician am I, but beater of the drum, in celebration of the dreamers who dare to dream what was, and what we might become. One at a time the world we can change, if only we save ourselves from the manipulators of conflict and rage. Sailing onward, looking upward, always striding forward in constant pursuit of what we might be, on the next page. In service to the dreamers’ fulfillment of the dream, of those who dare to see what we can do to accomplish what we want to be. I'll aim to be the stone in your sling, whenever against the greed of Industry Goliaths you hurl, to save us all from an inhumane Corporate world. We all had dreams of grandeur once of how far we could go. Let us now recapture that essence and reignite our courage against the greedy foe. Now is always the greatest time to propel into action our best choices, so let us join together in transformation and raise our Reasonable Voices.
