Best known as a public artist, John Pitman Weber led and co-led mosaic, concrete relief, and painted murals for over 40 years, in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, and Paris, France. He co-sculpted, with Sonja Henderson, the Martin Luther King Memorial in Marquette Park, dedicated 2016. He co-created, with Nina Smoot Cain, major mosaic commissions for Broward County, Florida (2009) libraries and for Spencer, Iowa, the latter as part of Artists and Communities, America Creates for the Millennium. Weber co-founded the well-known Chicago Mural Group (now Chicago Public Art Group) with the late William Walker. Weber has participated in major international and national travelling shows. He is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Spertus Museum, the DePaul U. Museum, the Brauer Museum of Valparaiso U., the Cohen Library of City College, NY, the Koehnline Museum of Oakton College, and the Elmhurst U. Collection. He has had over 30 solo shows, including five in New York City. Weber studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and Harvard University. He learned etching with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris. He taught at Elmhurst for 43 years. Now Emeritus, he focuses on printmaking and painting in his studio-home in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. He has four sons and five grandchildren.