Fourth Friday Art Walk: Paleo-Art To Be Featured At Future Home Of Museum

The Ste. Genevieve Art Guild’s Fourth Friday Art Walk exhibit for March will feature a look into the process of creating life-like sculptures as demonstrated by paleo-artist Shane Foulkes of Imperial, Missouri.

The display will be in the Koetting Building at 360 Market Street, the future home of the Ste. Genevieve Museum Learning Center, which is expected to feature pieces in the collection of archaeologist Guy Darrough, who coordinates with Foulkes on recreating dinosaurs based on remains with which Darrough is familiar.

“I was introduced to Shane’s ‘Cretaceous Creations of America’ at the showing of Guy Darrough’s dinosaurs creation, of Lost World Studio, at the DuBourg Centre  over this year’s Christmas walk,” said Juanita Wyman of the Ste. Genevieve Art Guild. “Shane was displaying his life-like sculptures, which are miniatures compared to Guy’s life-size figures, and he discussed his process with me.

“These figures became more than a display to me. They represented  a ‘3-D artistic process,’ and I thought they needed to be displayed as such.”

The Ste. Genevieve Art Guild had its holiday show during the Holiday Christmas Festival in the Koetting Building, but this will be its first Fourth Friday show there.

The Fourth Friday Art Walk is a monthly series from February to October sponsored now by the Ste. Genevieve Downtown Renewal Project. The event is beginning its 10th year. Hours are 6 to 9 p.m. with art spaces and galleries in downtown Ste. Genevieve open for patrons to check out the work of local and regional artists.

The Koetting Building is expected someday to be home to the Ste. Genevieve Museum Learning Center, as a capital campaign is taking place to raise more than $1.1 million for the building’s renovation and for initial operating costs. The museum board developed the plan for the center with Darrough in an effort to showcase his collection and create a destination attraction.

“When the guild decided to have our first Fourth Friday exhibit at the Koetting Building, we wanted to not only take advantage of our opportunity to display at this location until the new museum relocated there, we wanted to feature Shane, as his creations seemed to fit into our theme of ‘Other Worlds,’” Wyman said.

“I was intrigued by the artistic process — how he makes the  armatures, then produces a mold, where he then pours resin into the mold to produce multiple figures, and especially how realistic he finishes the pieces with his detailed painting,” she added. “I think anyone interested in sculpture would enjoy Shane’s exhibit and demonstration during Art Walk.”

On Saturday, March 25, Foulkes will demonstrate the creature-making process from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for those interested in learning more.

Foulkes has been painting and upgrading  on several life-size dinosaurs for Darrough, and he recently added new ones.

“We are working on many things but one that we are trying to get ready this year is the Eggs and Babies show,” Foulkes said. “Guy has lots of large-size dinosaurs, but this addition with the eggs and babies will be something that can be added with the larger ones and or present a show of their own. He has many eggs in nest and several baby dinosaurs — tyrannosaurs, sauropods, duckbills, gigantoraptors and others.

Foulkes has been operating Cretaceous Creations of America for about 18 years.

— The Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center is hosting a pop-up exhibit by the D’imajj artists.

The D’imajj works will be on view alongside art created by some members of the renowned Ste. Genevieve Art Colony and Summer School of Art of the 1930s, and the works of Roscoe Misselhorn permanently on display at the Welcome Center.

Jean Rissover, spokesperson for D’imajj and one of its six artists, described the pop-up exhibit as “A selection of paintings by award-winning D’imajj artists in the town’s most ‘welcoming’ setting.”

See complete story in the March 22 edition of the Herald.

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