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News

Prince Twins Seven-Seven, 2003 (photo courtesy of the artist).

R. I. P. Prince Twins Seven Seven (1944-2011)

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Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 8:44am

Prince Twins Seven-Seven suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in April 2011. He passed away on June 16th, 2011. Twins Seven-Seven was one of the greatest, and certainly the most celebrated, African artist of his generation.

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R. I. P. José de Jesus Garcia Montebravo

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Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 3:31pm

October 15, 1953 - July 9, 2010

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Wilson Bigaud c.1920 - 2010

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Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:00am

Wilson Bigaud, one of the last giants of the first generation of Haitian painters, died in Petit-Goâve, Haiti, on March 22.

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Earthquake in Haiti

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Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 9:02am

An Update on our Fund-Raising

The news coming in of the earthquake in Haiti has been almost incomprehensibly dreadful. We are responding to this disaster in several ways.

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The Gods Give Life to the Sacred Places of the Earth

José Benitez Sanchez 1938 - 2009

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Friday, July 24, 2009 - 3:29pm

We have learned that Huichol artist José Benitez Sanchez passed away on July 2nd, 2009.

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Medal for Clinton Global Initiative, designed by Toyin Folorunso, 2009.

Toyin Folorunso selected for Clinton's Global Citizen Awards

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Monday, June 8, 2009 - 8:31am

President Bill Clinton Selects Two Haitians and One Nigerian to Create Commemorative Art for the Clinton Global Citizen Awards

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Mystical Imagination: The Art of Haitian Master Hector Hyppolite

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Monday, May 18, 2009 - 12:00am

at the Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., May 18th to July 5th, 2009 presented by the Haitian Art Society and the Waterloo Center for the Arts.

"The Haitian government has declared 2008-2009 as the year of Hector Hyppolite.

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Haitian Art from the Collection of Jonathan Demme showing at FIAF in New York

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Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 12:00am

Through his films, his public stands, and his philanthropy, director Jonathan Demme has long been one of the foremost American proponents for the people and culture of Haiti. He is also one of the leading collectors of Haitian art in recent years.

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Susanne Wenger, R.I.P.

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Monday, January 12, 2009 - 12:00am

The Nigerian Tribune printed the following tribute:

Osun goddess devotee, Susanne Wenger, is dead
13.01.2009

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André Pierre 1916-2005

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Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 3:28pm

André Pierre, one of the giants of Haitian art, has joined the spirits. A houngan or vodou priest in the village of Croix-des-Missions, he became one of Haiti's greatest painters, considered by many the artistic heir to the houngan master painter, Hector Hyppolite.

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