Do a Google search for a place called Many Hands. It may even be www.manyhands.com. It's a consignment art shop and the guys are very knowledgible about the local artist... and very helpful. We've purchased several prints there and had them shipped. Had one print that got sent to a wrong address so didn't receive. Sent an email to them and they called me the next day to say print had been returned and would re-send. All the prints are hanging in my cabin and him looking at them as I type.

P.S.

St Croix is a bit of an artsy fartsy island. I'm not artsy fartsy, but getting there a bit. Look around Christiansted and you'll be surprised the things you can't live without. Enjoy!

Thank you Sandcrab. I'll be sure to stop in on them. We still have a couple of walls that need some island touch.

Bassman

I love Many Hands, but the recent death of one of the owners may cast a pall on its operation. Off the top of my head, try the Yellow House Gallery (on Queen Cross Street), Memories of St. Croix (a cooperative on Church and Company Streets), Gallery Gia (can't remember location but it's in the historic area of Christiansted), Mitchell-Larsen Studio (on Company Street). Actually, if you go to http://www.print2webcorp.com/news/VirginIslands-sc/ThisWeek/20060101/p18.asp you'll find a great list of art on the island!

WOW, I never would have found all those places on my own. Thanks Joanne.

Bassman

hey Bassman
also check out The Caribbean Museum Center in F'sted. A lot of the artists represented in the museum have artwork for sale and the museum director can hook you up with them.

Here is their website:
http://www.islandartandsoul.com/CaribbeanMuseumCenter.html

This is GREAT. I'm trying to talk my son and DL and her parents into going to STX in the fall. My DL is an artist and now I have more ammunition! Let's see, her dad loves golf, so we have Carambola, her mom likes the beach but has not been to the caribbean yet. I've got to talk them out of one of those cheap all-inclusives in the DR.

Bassman

Hello Bassman and Momabear,

Check this out:

Art Thursdays

Join the fun when Christiansted businesses including art galleries, retail shops and restaurants stay open late for a series of gallery walks. The purpose of Art Thursdays is to strengthen and invigorate the St. Croix art community by extending a monthly invitation for the public to come out and be a part of St. Croix's enthusiastic art community. Galleries include: Christiansted Gallery, Correa Studios, Danica Art Gallery, The Goldworker, ib Designs, Jewelweed, Maria Henle Studio, Torch Works and Yellow House Gallery. So make a night of it; explore the art venues, do some shopping, enjoy some dinner or drinks. This season's dates for Art Thursday are: November 3rd, December 1st in 2005 and January 5th, February 2nd, March 2nd and May 4th in 2006.

So when you said first week of May... do your vacation dates include May 4th? Might you catch this event? (tu)

--Islander

Sorry, I just realized this was for STX...and I replied for STT...apoligies. Bypass my reply for STX limited interests. I wish I had more info on STX artists. I hope to learn from this thread...

Camille Pissarro, born on St Thomas:

"His parents sent him to Paris at age 12 to a small boarding school. It was there that the director, seeing his interest in art, advised him to take "advantage of his life in the tropics by drawing coconut trees." When he returned to St. Thomas in 1847, this advice had been taken to heart:

He devoted all his spare time to making sketches, not only of coconut trees and other exotic plants, but also of the daily life surrounding him. Time and again he drew the donkeys and their carts on the sunny roads, the Negro women doing their wash on the beaches or carrying jugs, baskets, or bundles on their heads. In these studies done from life he revealed himself to be a simple and sincere observer.

Whenever his father sent him to the port to supervise arrivals, the young man took his sketchbook with him. While entering the boxes and crates that were being unloaded, he also made drawings of the animated life of the harbor with its sailboats gliding along the blue waters, coasting large, verdure-covered rocks capped by Danish citadels. For five years the budding artist thus struggled between his daily chores and the urge of his avocation. Since he could not obtain permission to devote himself to painting, he ran away one day, leaving a note for his parents. In the company of Fritz Melbye, a Danish painter from Copenhagen whom he had met while sketching in the port, he sailed to Venezuela. As he later said, he "bolted to Caracas in order to get clear of the bondage of bourgeois life."

From : http://www.pissarro.vi/artist.htm

Thanks Islander. We will be on island May 4th. I'm printing a copy of your list to take with us. I'm sure I'll be able to get directions when we're there.
Thanks again,

Bassman