Revolution, Ritual, and Remembrance:  The Art of Haiti

January 25, 2007 through March 17, 2007

EXHIBITION EVENTS
(all will take place in the University Art Gallery. Frick Fine Arts Building)

"Garden of Eden" (1974)
By Celestin Faustin

February 2
Friday,
5:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk

Alix Dorleus
Haitian Artist
February 8 Wednesday
4:00 p.m
Gallery Talk: “Haitian and African American Historical Struggle against Racism through the NAACP”

Dr. Leon Pamphile
Author
February 16
Friday
4:00 p.m.
Gallery Talk: “The Joyous Surrealism of Haitian Art”

Marcus Rediker
Professor, Department of History,
University of Pittsburgh

February 23
Friday
6:00 p.m.

Open Mic Event: The Spirit of Haiti

Host: Nathan James
March 1
Thursday
5:00 p.m
Gallery Talk

Ian Rawson
Board Chair Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
Lucy Rawson
President, Friends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
March 15
Friday
5:00 p.m.
Gallery Talk: “Images of Haiti: Dumpster Deities and Other Paradoxes”

Bill Bollendorf
Director, Galerie Macondo

This talk will deal with Haitian culture in general, a little history, a little vodou, a waterfall festival, and an inner city art colony that makes vodou effigies from trash.


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