Egg artist’s creation going to Smithsonian
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Still active in Placerville Emblem Club, bunco, poker and rummy groups, Kotelnicki is taking time now to say goodbye to each of them. In August, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given six months to a year to live.
Eighty-nine year old Mercedes Kotelnicki has one of her egg creations in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library in Simi Valley, another in a Catholic motherhouse museum in Canada and, now, one is going to the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.
“The Spirit of America” is an ostrich egg that Kotelnicki decorated in 1984. “I wanted to do something to show how I felt about America,” said Kotelnicki. The egg is crowned with a golden eagle and rests on a gold, four-legged base. The American flag and copies of famous paintings showing Betsy Ross, George Washington, the writing of the Declaration of Independence and three Revolutionary War musicians adorn the outside of the egg. Double doors on the egg open to reveal an intricate miniature scene on the steps of the ...
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