Though Haiti does not make “primitive” art its focus, a gallery entitled “Spirits” displays a parade of beautifully executed items related to voodoo traditions and the metaphysical ...

Voodoo art–that is, the ritual artifacts that are used in voodoo ceremonies in Haiti–revolves around the esthetics of embellishment and appropriation.

Local artist Tina Girouard, an authority on Haitian art, author of the 1994 book “Sequin Artists of Haiti” and honorary godmother during Glassman’s voodoo initiation, says that Jean Louis is ...

A new exhibition of Voodoo art from Haiti evokes the island’s heat and intensity while setting a few records straight. 'Lwa in the Blue Bird' (detail), an example of Voodoo art, by Prospere ...

Yet Haiti’s primitives have come a long, long way in the eleven years since the founding of Port-au-Prince’s Centre d’Art, which supplies untrained local artists with painting material and a ...

For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, magical dolls and chanted spells. But Voodoo – as practiced in Haiti and by the black diaspora in the United States, South ...

“Vizyon: Art by Young Visionaries,” a pop-up exhibit from the New Vision Art School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is now on display at the Ellen Noël Art Museum, 4919 E. University Blvd. The ...