Jean-Marcel St. Jacques

Jean-Marcel St. Jacques is a self-taught artist of Lousiana Afro-Creole decent. He makes what he calls "wooden quilts" from wood salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home. He also masks as a Medicine Man in the Black Masking Indian tradition, and hosts a popular experience called Hoodoo, Voodoo and a Bottle of Rum on the airbnb platform. His art is in the permanent collections of the American Folk Art Museum, The Alexandria Museum of Art, and in the homes of thousands of art-lovers worldwide. One of his Black masking Indian suits is currently being featured in an exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris, and was chosen as the main image for the catalog cover and ad campaign.