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Noailles Village, a thriving metal sculpture industry in Haiti

Noailles Village, a thriving metal sculpture industry in Haiti

Here is a picture of Noailles Village. This is a thriving city in Haitian art as it produces metal sculpture.

Noailles Village is the only place in Haiti where metal work occurs. The town is a colony of metal workers, who carve custom iron crosses.

The metal work small-scale industry started in 1956 when George Liataud starting making esthetically pleasing iron crosses to mark graves and tombs in Croix-des-Bouquet's cemeteries. Eventually he combined Voodoo and Christian symbols to appeal to the tourist market.

Today Noailles Village has a legacy of generations of metal work artists.

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Master founder, sculptor and painter, Ludovic Booz

Master founder, sculptor and painter, Ludovic Booz

Here is a picture of sculptor and painter, Ludovic Booz who was born on June 16, 1940 in Aquin.

Ludovic Booz (Born June 16, 1940 - Died February 2, 2015) was a Haitian painter and sculptor who sculpted bronze busts of several Haitian presidents. Some of his works have been exhibited in France, Suriname and Israel. This gifted artist had worked under Antonio Joseph at the "Centre D'Art, and around 1960 he studied at the academy of fine Arts. In a note of deepest heartfelt sympathy to his departed soul, the Haitian National Pantheon Museum (MUPANAH) mourned his departure as a great loss to the Haitian culture. On this occasion at MUPANAH, the Director General of the Pantheon Michèle G. Frisch recalled some of his remarkable creations like 'Arms', 'Indien Inconnu', the busts of Dumarsais Estimé at Port-au-Prince, Hector Hyppolite to Pont Morin and Magloire Ambroise on the place of Jacmel.

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