About the Artist
Press & Media Highlights
People Weekly, Arts, Great Expectations, "Before Francine Krause's bellymasks, pregnancy only seemed to last forever" September 2001
"One woman was so determined to be cast that Krause wound up working with her in the midst of early labor."- San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, Health & Fitness, Swollen with pride, Heather Knight, Feb 2003
“…the unique shape of a pregnant woman’s body becomes a work of art.” - Fit Pregnancy, Small Packages: The Ultimate Souvenir, Lori Oliwenstein, Winter 1997
"If you find your pregnant body a thing of wonder, you can capture its shape permanently by casting your very own body, with all its glorious mounds and curves." - Sonoma West Times & News, Sebastopol, CA, Lois Pearlman, June/July 1997
"One thing for certain is that she (Krause) is making a real living through her deeply cherished dream. For a true artist, it doesn’t get any better than that." - USA Today, Life, A plaster cast can make a pregnancy last forever, Cathy Hainer, May 1997
"Why bronze the baby shoes? Now you can have a memento of your child even before it leaves the womb.” - The Wall Street Journal, Expectant Mothers Memorialize the Shape Of Things To Come, Pui-Wing Tam, May 2001
"Ms. Krause kick-started the belly-casting movement back in 1986. She later began selling do-it-yourself kits, bringing the enterprise onto the Internet in 1996." - The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, CA, Creative Casting: Artist Makes Mementos of Big Tummies, Carolyn Lund, April 1991
"..artist Francine Krause creates plaster casts of pregnant women to honor their important role nurturing a child."
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