BIO

Jean-Marcel St. Jacques (MA) is a New Orleans-based, California-born self-taught sculptor and textile artist working primarily in wood, beads, and found objects. His deep Louisiana Creole and Southern heritage is a foundation for his work, along with his great-grandmother’s patchwork strip quilts and the hoodoo aesthetic of his great-grandfather.  St. Jacques’s Wooden Quilts® were originally created to find higher purpose and beauty for the debris and ugliness left by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, one of America’s worst human disasters.

 

His work has toured globally and currently resides in permanent collections such as the American Folk Art Museum, The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, and the Alexandria Museum of Art. His commissions and installations can be found in numerous private collections. St. Jacques is also a Black Masking Indian with Golden Feather Hunters and a musician.