The eighth anniversary of the catastrophe that befell Haiti on January 12th, 2010 was unfortunately desecrated by the latest vile and racist words of Mr. Trump.  Rather than attempt my own response to them, I am grateful to be able to quote the words of Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat as posted on her Facebook page:

Today We Mourn, Tomorrow We Fight

Indigo Arts presents a collection of work by visionary and self-taught artists from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.  The collection includes work by artists from Burkina Faso, Congo, Cuba, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya and Nigeria.

Please come see us in Booth #18.
 

Dates:
January 18 - 21, 2018

Location:
Metropolitan Pavilion (Booth #18)
125 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011

The William King Museum of Art in Abingdon, Virginia has just opened a retrospective on the late South-western Virginia visionary artist, 

The New York Times has just released a video tour of the workshop of legendary Brazilian artist José Francisco Borges.  Its in their The Daily 360  series, so you can see him working in his Bezerros, Brazil studio in full 360 degree color.

We just returned from a trip to France.  Of many highlights, the one which I have most exhaustively photographed is our visit to La Maison Picassiette, in Chartres.  One of the world's reknowned artist-created environments, Maison Picassiette was the creation of an eccentric (obviously!) man named Raymond Isidore (1900 - 1964).  A man of modest means and boundless vision, Isidore worked at various periods in his life at a foundry, a tramway company, as a road mender for the town of chartres, and finally as the caretaker for the town's cemetery.