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A view of the physical Ti Moun Ayiti exhibit.

A village scene. There is a hut in the foreground. There are children running around, a woman carrying a basket, and a man cutting down a tree.

Wooden covered vessel with carvings along the outside.

Wooden covered vessel with carvings of flowers along the outside

Papier-mache vase with black background and blue and white flower.

Framed print of all the street names in the Uptown neighborhood in Chicago, IL.

Framed print of all the street names in the Uptown neighborhood in Chicago, IL.

oil on canvas

Theard Aladin was born in Jacmel in 1925. He was a cousin to the renowned Haitian painters Prefete Duffaut and Pauleus Vital. For most of his life, Aladin was a stonemason and farmer. At the end of 1983, he injured his back and was…

oil on canvas

oil on canvas

Calixte Henri was born in Port-au-Prince in 1933. He began to paint at the Centre d'Art in 1955. Soon after, he abandoned paint brushes in favor of razor blades and palette knives which lent a certain finesse and transparency to his…