Catastrophic fire in the "Grand Rue" Artists' Community in Haiti - and now COVID-19
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Saturday, March 21, 2020 - 12:00am
With all the hardship and tragedy in the world right now, with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, I will mention one tragedy, because most of you will not have heard of it, and it impacts several of our artists in Haiti.
I was sad to learn the news that Gerard Fortuné, the playful, prolific and much loved Haitain naif artist passed away on December 8th, 2019. I have heard several dates cited for Gerard's birth, - 1933, 1925, and according to the obituary below from Le Centre d'Art, 1924.
You Call It Craft, I Call It Art - New York Times Features Artist Leandro Gomez Quintero
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Friday, August 30, 2019 - 12:00am
A recent article in the New York Times profiles a variety of the artists exhibiting this last July at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe. The story looked at folk artists from Borneo, Cuba, India, Mexico and Peru.
