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Janet Zweig is an artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently working on several public art commissions around the United States. Her most recently installed public works include an LED light sculpture in a library in Fall City, Washington, a memorial in the lawn of Mellon Park's Walled Garden in Pittsburgh, and two sculptures for a bridge in St. Louis. Other public works include a 1200' frieze at the Prince Street subway station in New York, and a system-wide interactive project for eleven Light Rail train stations in Minneapolis, incorporating the work of over a hundred Minnesotans. She is currently working on public projects for Seattle, Santa Monica, Milwaukee, Orlando, and Queens, NY. Her sculpture and books have been exhibited widely in such places as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Exit Art, PS1 Museum, the Walker Art Center, and Cooper Union. She has won numerous awards including the Rome Prize Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and residencies at PS1 Museum and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Brown University.

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Please Give Norbert Weiner Some Naughty Schnauzers
(and Other Curious Developments in the Work of Janet Zweig)

by Patricia C. Phillips in Sculpture Magazine, April 2009.