November 11, 2009

STE. GENEVIEVE -- Normally held on the fourth Friday, the Art Walk in Ste Genevieve, Missouri, will be held on the third Fridays in November and December due to the holidays.

On November 20, from 6PM to 9PM, the one dozen art studios and galleries in Ste Genevieve will be open to welcome artists and art lovers to open studios and exhibition premiers.  In it's seventeenth month, the Ste Genevieve Art Walk is an event that many locals and visitors regularly put on their calendars.  With twelve art spaces located in a small three by three block area of the charming historic district of downtown Ste Genevieve, this event is growing in popularity.

The artworks of Stephen Barnett of Staten Island, New York, will be featured at Joseph Sister's Gallery, located on North Main Street.  Exhibiting his "Photographic Sculpture" which he calls "manifestations of the symbiotic relationship between realism and formalism," Barnett's work will easily demonstrate that photography and three-dimensional found elements such as nails, springs, wood and wire can be combined to produce beautifully unique and affordable wall art.

The Center for the Arts’ featured artist is owner and artist, Diane L. Wilson, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and is a graduate of the acclaimed Art Institute of Pittsburgh.  Wilson has sucessfully taken her experience in traditional media such as oils and photography, and combined it with techniques she developed while working as an artist in eastern Virginia.  More than a year ago, Wilson began to incorporate these techniques into her three-dimensional mixed-media photography art work – with striking results.

Annette Rolfe, of Ste Genevieve, will be the featured artist at Studio de Michel.  Earlier this year, she decided to pick up the paint brushes again for her first public art show in over a decade.  Sculptures and oil paintings from her earlier period are modern and often abstract and will be contrasted, in this show, with her new paintings which are more "regionalist" in style.  However, there is an abstract "chord" sounding in this exhibit as Rolfe has successfully combined concepts of music into the new work.

Lulu Cameron will be the featured artist at Stella & Me in an exhibit entitled "Just for Fun".  According to the artist, these new works are "fun collages" framed and priced to easily take home.  Cameron will also have her art studio, located within Lulu's Antiques, open with "selected works and pre-Christmas cheer."

Other studios and galleries to be open are Mo'sArt Studio with three dimensional juried work of Best of Missouri Hands artists; Merchant Street Gallery with vintage photographs of Ste Genevieve from the Dunker-Donze collection; Galleria Ste Genevieve with a Christmas themed exhibit; Sainte Genevieve Winery; Studio 221; Only Child Originals; Art at Sara's Antiques with the Valle Grade School kindergarten through 5th grades; and the visitors' Welcome Center which displays the Roscoe Misselhorn Collection and the Ste Genevieve Art Colony paintings.

The Ste Genevieve Art Walk occurs each month on the fourth Friday from 6 - 9 PM, except in November and December when it is scheduled for the third Fridays.  Most art spaces are artist owned studios or galleries presenting new work, featured artists and refreshments for visitors to enjoy.  Most of these spaces are open on weekends and have regular posted business hours.

The Ste Genevieve Art Walk has a home on the web at http://stegenartwalk.blogspot.com where more information and Art Walk maps may be downloaded.