Edgar Jerins

Edgar Jerins was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1958, and his formal artistic training began at the age of fourteen. By the age of 18, Edgar had received a full scholarship from the Scholastic Art Awards to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the oldest school in America that teaches a classical study of the figure.

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"Donkeys Around Town" was cooked up by ex PA Governor Ed Rendell. The idea is to have painted donkey sculptures for each state and territory to be placed around Philadelphia to celebrate this summer's Democratic National Convention in our city.