WHITE HOUSE – Artist and product designer Joan Klatil Creamer of East Greenwich, who this year again was selected by the American Egg Board to decorate the Rhode Island State Egg. It is her sixth time decorating an egg for the display, for which the theme this year is the state bird.
Creamer presented this year’s egg – featuring a Fabergé-like design and containing a sculpture of a Rhode Island Red chicken – to First Lady Laura Bush at the White House Visitor Center, where it can be viewed along with the other state eggs. (Before going on display at the White House, the eggs were shipped to Chicago for review by the American Egg Board.)
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On Thursday, Creamer had presented a duplicate egg to Rhode Island First Lady Sue Carcieri, in the State Room of the R.I. State House in Providence.
“I wanted the Rhode Island egg at the White House to stand out from the other state eggs at a glance, with beauty and elegance,” the artist said. “To accomplish this look, I used Swarovski crystals, gold findings and cording, on a pearlized painted egg. The Rhode Island Red is sculpted, has crystals and is sitting on a nest of glittered hay.”
The large eggs Creamer used for both the White House egg and the state duplicate were donated by Little Rhody Egg Farms of Foster.
The annual decorating of an egg to represent the Ocean State in the national display is sponsored by the R.I. Department of Environmental Management’s Division of Agriculture and Resource Marketing.
