Barbara Johns
Stories this photo appears in:
![Tease photo](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/01/05/Barbara_Johns_2_r100x80.jpg?144a9619b7b2d55e12d8b619b3e5adb91a2095fa)
Maryland artist will create Capitol statue of Barbara Johns
Steven Weitzman, a leading figure American public art, has already sculpted abolitionist Frederick Douglass and former Washington Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. Now the 71-year-old Maryland-based artist has been chosen to immortalize Black teenage activist Barbara Rose Jones in a bronze statue in the U.S. Capitol.