Carol Maria Weaver, who wrote the Amsterdam News “The Lash and the Cross” religion column in the 1980s, died peacefully at home, surrounded by family, on January 17, 2025, after a brief hospital stay.
Born in Montclair, N.J., in 1936, Weaver became owner of Artistic Perceptions Unlimited and was a lifelong practitioner of cartoon, fashion, fine, contemporary, mosaic, and sculptured arts. She was an advocate and student of art who excelled in skill and techniques in a variety of mediums and styles.
Weaver had award-winning exhibitions and installations in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.; decades of art donations; leadership roles in Manhattan art communities; and achievements that included having her work exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973. She also spent years as a communications executive — as host of a Sunday morning radio talk show in New York and public relations vice president. She consulted for leading corporations and community empowerment organizations with her husband, Frederick S. Weaver, president and owner of Public Relations Enterprises, Inc. and great-grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. She continued writing the “The Lash and the Cross ” column after her husband died.
Weaver is survived by her four adult children — Thea Smith, James Weaver, Anastasia Howard, and Maria Weaver; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and beloved in-laws.
She will be remembered at a Celebration of Life event later this spring that will include an exhibit of her work from more than 65 years in the arts and honor her uncommon range of talents.
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