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This is your last week to see “The Enduring Spirit of Haitian Metal Sculpture” on display!
This image was posted on October 16, 2024.
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Vibrant art traditions can be found across cemeteries of Africa and the African Diaspora–indeed, it is here that the ancestors reside and are memorialized by their descendants.
This image was posted on September 27, 2024.
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One of Haiti’s most celebrated metal sculptors, Serge Jolimeau (b.
This image was posted on August 28, 2024.
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In July of 2021, marking his fiftieth year as a sculptor, Gabriel Bien-Aimé traveled to the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the first time.
This image was posted on July 19, 2024.
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The Louisjuste brothers—Sérésier, Janvier, and Joseph (1940–89) were born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti.
This image was posted on May 31, 2024.
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Murat Brièrre (1938–88) was the first to study under visionary artist Georges Liautaud (1899–1991), and he quickly gained recognition as one of the preeminent metal sculptors of Haiti.
This image was posted on February 28, 2024.
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Much of visionary Haitian artist, Georges Liautaud’s (1899–1991) work reflects Vodou, an African Diasporic religion and way of life—from his crosses, which symbolize the crossroads (kafou), where the mortal world meets the spiritual world, to his sculptures depicting various omnipresent Vodou spirits, or lwa, which mirror different facets of nature and life.
This image was posted on January 29, 2024.
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To create his sculptures, visionary Haitian artist, Georges Liautaud (1899–1991) first made a rough drawing on paper, or simply drew the shape of the figure freehand onto the metal.
This image was posted on November 14, 2023.
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Steel oil drum containers were initially left behind by U.S. Marines between 1915 and 1934 during the United States’ occupation of Haiti following the assassination of Haiti’s president Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam (1859–1915) in 1915.
This image was posted on October 18, 2023.
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A visionary artist, Georges Liautaud (1899–1991) founded the Haitian metal sculpture movement.
This image was posted on September 12, 2023.
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Our newest exhibition “The Enduring Spirit of Haitian Metal Sculpture” is now on display in Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall.
This image was posted on August 18, 2023.
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