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Dr. Courtney Joseph interviews Farah Dioro about Haiti and coming to America.

Dr. Courtney Joseph interviews Samson Adrien about Haiti and coming to America.

Dr. Courtney Joseph interviews Kantara Souffrant about Haiti and coming to America.

Dr. Courtney Joseph interviews Daphne F. Torres about Haiti and coming to America.

Dr. Courtney Joseph interviews Fabienne Fify about Haiti and coming to America.

oil on board

Gabriel Alix was born in St. Marc in 1930. He came to Port-au-Prince in 1946 at the urging of his lifelong friend, the legendary Hector Hyppolite. He joined the Centre d’Art at that time.

Alix was a taciturn man who was married to…

oil on canvas

Francoise Jean was born in Les Anglais, Haiti in 1953. She started drawing at an early age. When she was nine years old, she drew rural scenes on clothes for her mother to embroider. In teenage years, she moved to Port-au-Prince near…

oil on canvas

This painting, like many in this exhibition, was donated to the Waterloo Center for the Arts’ permanent collection by Janet Feldman. Feldman amassed a huge collection of art from Haiti, Mexico, and other cultures, then donated the…

acrylic on canvas

S.E. Bottex was born in 1922 in Port Margot in the north of Haiti. After finishing secondary school, Bottex worked as a photographer. Around 1955, encouraged by his older brother, Jean-Baptiste, a well-known Haitian artist, he…

oil on canvas