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Thomas Jay Warren:

Thomas Jay Warren was born in the Mississippi Delta in 1958. He studied figure sculpture with Andrzej Pitynski at the Johnson Atelier in Hamilton, New Jersey, one of the largest sculpture foundries. For ten years Jay was head of the modeling/enlarging department of this institute. During these years he built his reputation with such works as the Medgar Evers Memorial, the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the first Football Game Monument. In 1992 Jay was presented with the Young Sculptors Award by the National Sculpture Society. He was inducted into the NSS as a professional member in 1997.