Art & Sole: St. Louis Artist Sharon Von Senden's Work of Art Graces Cover of New Shoe Book

“I absolutely love sparkly things,” says artist Sharon Von Senden. “There can never be too much glitter in a woman’s closet.” Since 1997, Von Senden has been City Museum’s main mosaic artist, constructing more than 20,000 square feet of mosaics. One of Von Senden’s other masterpieces—a mosaic high heel—now graces the cover of Art & Sole: A Spectacular Selection of More Than 150 Fantasy Art Shoes, a new book from Jane Weitzman, the wife of shoe designer Stuart Weitzman. Von Senden began adorning shoes in 2000, when she covered four women’s shoes with antique mirrored glass, Swarovski crystals, gemstones, and jewelry pieces for an exhibit at City Museum. Afterward, Jane commissioned Von Senden to create shoes as art pieces for Stuart Weitzman stores. Besides the glitzy heel on the book’s cover, four more of Von Senden’s pieces are featured in the book. “When I found out, I was absolutely beside myself,” she says.