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The Friends of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) Haiti operates an online art gallery geared towards the selling of Haitian art to benefit the struggling country. In the past they have given help by displaying Haitian art at Pennsylvania State, had benefits to raise funds for Haitian causes, and have showed and sold works by Haitian artist, especially of the Artibonite valley. Since they're a hospital, the focus of the donations is usually geared towards health services, but they also assist people in developing their environment and finances.

info@friendsofhas.org
412.361.4884
6739 Reynolds Street | Pittsburgh | PA | 15206

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Cine Institute celebrating success in film, art and technology in Haiti

Artists Institute in Haiti is the only free college for film, art and technology where 115 students receive full scholarships through private donations. The institute offers film study programs through Cine Institute, and most recently they have added an Audio Institute, a place where students can learn music production and audio engineering. The unique model of this institute started with tuition-free education and hands-on college-level training in a two-year program. The institute's employment division brings in outstanding employers like Google, Arcade Fire, Partners In Health and Donna Karan, etc, in search for talents, who provide real top quality jobs and experience for the students and alumni. Its faculty is made up of Haitian and international professionals who are extremely dedicated and passionate about creating a brighter future for Haiti.

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Here is a picture of Numa Perrier. She is an actress, filmmaker, visual artist and founder for tv network, Black&SexyTV. She is a Haitian American artist and producer with a very busy life. Perrier is the co-creator of web series roomierloverfriends and The Couple.

Using her life experiences and her own body to draw from, Haitian-American artist Numa Perrier creates pieces that are as unique and flavored as they are provoking and compelling. Adopted by a mixed-race couple at a young age, Perrier grew up in a small town in America where her innate, cultural love of art was nurtured into her current expression through photography, film, installation work on a large-scale, textiles and collage that offer of her own identity while covering themes of power, sensuality and relationships, such as in her latest photography piece "Florida Water."

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Haitian artists from the African Diaspora will be showing their work for the first time at the Caribbean Fantastic exhibition at the 40th Art Basel event in Miami.

World-acclaimed Haitian artist Jean Lagagneur's works will be prominently featured during the month-long event.

The exhibition will be held at Multitudes Contemporary Art Gallery, owned by Babacar Mbow, who is also its curator and a specialist in the art of the African Diaspora.

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Leaving his lifelong dream of being a politician behind, Port-au-Prince artist Romel Jean Pierre took his first steps into the art world after witnessing an art show organized by members of the Atis-Rezistans. He would later join the division of the Atis-Rezistans for the young, Timoun-Rezistans, where he developed and honed his skills.

To date, Romel Jean Pierre has created a video-graphic media piece entitled Tele Ghetto Haiti, had showings at ENARTS as part of the Transcultural Contemporary Arts Forum, at Delmas City Hall, for April's Europe Week, and in Quinzaine of the Francophones.

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No stranger to having his works on display in exhibitions throughout Europe, North and South America, Haitian born painter, sculptor, advertising illustrator and graphic artist, Phillippe Dodard has created pieces using materials as varying as iron, jewels and paint on canvas. His early years saw him learning the trade at the Junior Seminary of ST. Martial's College, and he would go on to receive scholarships and opportunities for tours on which he gave speeches. Throughout his schooling, he was a student alongside Patrick Vilaire, Jean-Claude Garoute and Frido Casimir.

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Good Demen Haiti (GDH) is an arts organization dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk youth. Its activity is creation of personal, household, and business products made from recycled plastic.

This year GDH is making costumes and accessories for the Carnival of Flowers. House artist, Gumo Lormeus, will instruct how to create flowers from recycled plastic bottles in a five-step process.

GDH's purpose is to keep at-risk youth off the streets of Port-au-Prince and teach them life skills.

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Good Demen Haiti (GDH), established in 2004, is a program for at-risk youth. A volunteer arts organization, it seeks to keep kids off the streets.

Artist Gumo Lormeus teaches the teens how to create art objects from recyclables. This year they will make costumes for the Carnival of Flowers, using plastic bottles. The order from the Ministry of Tourism is for 400 whistles, 200 dresses, and 200 hats. GDH also produces products for public and private consumption.

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The Ministry of Tourism (MOT) has contracted with volunteer group, Good Demen Haiti (GDH), to provide Carnival costumes for 2013. The members, at-risk youth, design and assemble dresses, hats, and accessories from recycled plastic bottles.

Group leader, Gumo Lormeus, teaches how to deconstruct plastic bottles and create plastic flowers in a five-step process.

MOT has put in an order for 400 whistles and 200-each hats and dresses, to be made from plastic materials.

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Founded in 1944, by the American teacher Dewitt Peters, The Centre d'Art Haitien help in the development in artists such as Hector Hyppolite,Castera Bazile and Philome Obin.

A larger percentage of the artists came from the lower class in Haiti. They have been the greatest contribution of the Haitian culture with their art created with the support of the Centre d'Art to Haitian culture and to Haitian society.

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