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Welcome To The HAS Home Page
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The Haitian Art Society
The Society was formed in 2003 to strengthen and expand interest in and understanding of Haitian Art and Artists. Our website provides information about the HAS and our events, and also about other Haitian art events. We provide links to other sites about Haitian art and culture. Please click on the page links on the left to navigate around the HAS website. In addition to maintaining this web site, the Haitian Art Society organizes Conferences at which members are able to view public and private collections of Haitian art.
Adieu Francine The Haitian Art Society DC is deeply saddened by the news of the death of Francine Murat, Director of the Centre d'Art of Port-au-Prince. Francine died on February 25, 2010, six weeks following the collapse of the Centre d'Art building during the catastrophic earthquake of in Haiti on January 12. Francine has been associated with the Centre d'Art since its opening in 1944, first as Administrative Assistant to the Founder Dewitt Peters, then as Director for over forty years until her death. Her extended professional service has earned her public recognition as an authority on Haitian Art. Francine Murat has carried out with grace, competence, and perseverance-- and often, under trying circumstances--the remarkable tradition of this unique and longest living art institution of Haiti. The Haitian Art Society DC salutes the departure of this icon of Haitian Art. May her beautiful soul rest in peace. Fritz Racine President, HAS DC
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Haitian Quake Relief Fund Undoubtedly, you have seen news reports of the devastating earthquake which recently struck Haiti's most densely populated area. The devastion is immense. Our beloved and talented Haitian artists, their friends, families, and neighbors are in great peril. They are in desperate need of food, water, shelter and medical care.
The Waterloo Center for the Arts, Friends of the Art Center, and the national chapter of the Haitian Art Society have partnered to establish a Haiti Quake Relief Fund.
We urge you to show your appreciation for the cultural gifts that Haiti has bestowed upon us by helping the Haitian people in their time of need. Please consider a generous contribution to this fund, or any other charitable organization providing emergency relief in Haiti.
For more information or to make a contribution to the Friends of the Art Center Haiti Quake Relief Fund by credit card, please contact the Waterloo Center for the Arts by phone at 319-291-4490. For more information about the Waterloo Center for the Arts and Friends of the Art Center, please visit our website at www.waterloocenterforthearts.org. For information about the Haitian Art Society, visit www.haitianartsociety.org.
Check or money orders, made out to Friends of the Art Center - Haiti Quake Relief Fund, may be sent to:
Haiti Quake Relief Fund Waterloo Center for the Arts 225 Commercial Street Waterloo, IA 50701 |
100% of all funds received will be forwarded on to established U.S. based human relief organizations providing direct emergency aid in Haiti. Friends of the Art Center is a 501c3 charitable organization and all donations to the Haiti Quake Relief Fund are 100% tax deductable. Feel free to forward this message to your contact list. |
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2010 Conference.
PIttsburgh. October 14- 16, 2010
See Pittsbugh 2010 page, bottom left
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October 2 -- December 31, 2009
" Mystical Imagination" is at the
Waterloo Center for the Arts
in Waterloo, Iowa
http://www.waterloocenterforthearts.org/exhibitions-reulingfeldman.html
"Mystical Imagination:
The Art of Haitian Master
Hector Hyppolite"
The Washington DC chapter and the National HAS presented
May 18 - July 5, 2009
a major retrospective of more than 50 of his works at
The Art Museum of the Americas
http://www.museum.oas.org/exhibitions/museum_exhibitions/hyppolite/index.htm
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To join the Haitian Art Society or to renew your membership, click on the link for "About HAS Membership" on the left or click the page link here http://www.haitianartsociety.org/about.html
There are regional chapters of the HAS located in Washington, D.C. and in New York City.
Our Web Address
HAS started with a dot com website in 2003 but as of April 2005 we moved to this dot org address. The old dot com url will now be a forwarding link. |
Questions or suggestions about the HAS ?
Please feel free to send us an email And to join our email list for HAS or to update your email address, please send an email to HAS_ORG@comcast.net Email = HAS_ORG [AT] comcast.net
Our next HAS Meetings and Conferences
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Toussaint Louverture by Guidel Presume
Click on the portrait of Toussaint to be taken to the web page of author Madison Smartt Bell to see more about the painter and his subject.
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