Art School

We returned to the Haitian College des Arts National (National Arts College). Thierry, our Director of Haitian operations arranged for us to meet with some of the most accomplished young artists in the country if not the world. We sat with them for a good period and have decided to assemble a touring exhibition of the first works to come out of this school after the earthquake.

In inspiration and execution, those works which have already been completed are second to none. They reflect directly the experiences and reflection of these artists who are facing the largest existential challenges a given artistic community can face.

We are assembling an exhibition of 60 to 80 pieces, some paintings, some sculpture and some tableaus which will illuminate for the future viewing public the experience of having survived the single largest mass death event in the history of the Americas. We consider ourselves lucky to have even seen these works let alone having the opportunity to potentially bring these works to the North America viewing public. These artists have so much to say that it is incumbent on us to do what we can to help their message reach a larger global community.

This community is doing well in comparison to how they were immediately after the earthquake. There are a number of tents of campus where students without places to go are living communally in the hopes of being able to continue their creative work, work which will be crucial to the cultural survival of Haitian CREATIVE (as opposed to tourist) art. At this point, materials are in short supply. Shortages of canvas, paints, hand tools etc….. means that production has slowed to a crawl. We are therefore reaching out to our own artistic communities up North to help supply these people with the materials required to complete the pieces that will comprise the touring exhibition. If you have access to any such supplies, or if you can assemble these sorts of materials for donations to the national art school, please contact us by email at ccrphaiti@gmail.com.