Ste Genevieve's Art Walk

On November 20 & December 18, the Art Walk will be on the 3rd Friday.

Over one dozen artist-owned studios and galleries, within a 3 x 3 block area of the downtown historic district, are open each month for an Art Walk from 6 - 9 pm, usually on the Fourth Fridays, except during holiday season.

Welcome to Sainte Genevieve Winery and Stella & Me to the Art Walk map as of last month.

Featured artists for November 20th are from Staten Island, NY, Stephen Barnett's "Photographic Sculpture" at Joseph Sister's Gallery; Diane Wilson at Center for the Arts with three-dimensional mixed-media photographic art work; Annette Rolff's new paintings at Studio de Michel; and Lulu's "All for Fun" collage work at Stelle & Me. Not leaving the youth out, the Valle School's kindergarten through 5th graders will be at Art at Sara's Antiques. Get your map below.

In 2010, look for a special collaboration by the Art Walk, Ste Genevieve Chamber of Commerce and The Sheldon.

MAP Ste Genevieve's Art Walk CLICK HERE

A special thanks to the Tour of Missouri LOC, the Ste Genevieve Chamber of Commerce, the Ste Genevieve Art Guild, the Ste Genevieve Downtown Renewal Project, the Ste Genevieve Herald, the Show-Me Shop, Donze Communications, the Route du Vin wineries, Insider 573 Magazine, Crown Valley Winery and the Ste Genevieve Municipal Band for your support in 2009.

Most of the art venues serve a refreshment to guests on the Art Walk, as well as offer openings of new exhibits. As you walk along, from studio to gallery during the Art Walk, you may notice an artist painting a sunset, a guitarist playing for tips or just the ambiance of a by-gone day. Ste Genevieve boasts more examples of colonial French buildings than anywhere else in the country. Old brick and stone buildings from later German settlers are also preserved here.

Ste Genevieve, Missouri, has had a long history with art going back to the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony, established in the early 1930's. Both Thomas Hart Benton and Joe Jones, along with other notable artists, were faculty in it's Summer School of Art. Over a century earlier, John James Audubon moved here and worked in town and the surrounding area for a short period. Before that, Native Americans painted on cave walls in this county. Ste Genevieve's artists of today continue a very, very long tradition.

Although not on the Art Walk Map, you might want to wander in to the Post Office lobby, where you can see a W.P.A. mural painted in the 1940's by the Colony artist, Martyl, daughter of Aimee Schweig, a co-founder of the Ste Genevieve Art Colony.

Other art related spaces in Ste Genevieve (click on link below)


View Ste Genevieve Arts in the Historic District in a larger map