HAS Conferences Events and News

As usual for an HAS Conference, it included panel discussions, visits to exhibits, and viewing of private collections -- Visit to Sallie Ann Glassman’s Botanica; Trip to a private home collection in Mandeville with cocktails and appetizers and kreole music around the pool; Dinner on the waterfront; and the timing coincides with some really intriguing festivals: Anba Dlo: Halloween Festival, and Annual VooDoo Fest: with lectures, ceremony, food, Mama Lola present. Held at Voo Doo Authentica Gallery, Fete Guede (Day of the Dead) celebration w/ mambo, Sallie Ann Glassman. Food & procession to the cemetary to feed the dead. Please wear white with a purple headscarf, or black and purple for Gede ... More details on the Waterloo web link

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The 2009 Haitian Art Society Annual Conference

http://www.waterloocenterforthearts.org/Hyppolite/index.html

June 11-13, 2009 Washington DC.

The full schedule, registration information and forms, and conference hotel details are all contained in a .pdf file which you can view and print from this web link:

http://www.waterloocenterforthearts.org/Hyppolite/Conference_Schedule.pdf

June 11

The HAS conference opened with a garden party 6:00-11:00pm for the Hyppolite exhibition at the Museum of Americas/Organization of American States in the evening. Although this event is ticketed at $75 ($100 after June 1) -- HAS conference participants may attend for $50 with advance registration.

See schedule in pdf link above for details and registration information

June 12 -- 8:30am--4:30pm events at Art Museum of the Americas and tour of the Mami Wata exhibit at the National Museum of African Art, followed by tour of private collections, and in the evening - Dinner/Reception/Party for conference participants

June 13 -- Private Tours of Notable Haitian Art Collections in the DC area - all day

See schedule in pdf link above for all conference schedule details, including hotel and registration information

Annual membership dues are only twenty-five dollars per person. To join HAS just make out your check for $25 to the Haitian Art Society and mail it to:

HAS c/o Cammie Scully & Kent Shankle, co-Presidents

Waterloo Center for the Arts, 225 Commercial Street, Waterloo, IA 50701-1313

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The 2008 Haitian Art Society Conference

The Waterloo Center for the Arts was pleased to host the 2008 Haitian Art Conference, September 26-28. which featured exhibitions, performances, a symposium, catered dinner and bus tour to visit other area collections. Holding the largest public collection of Haitian art in the country (over 800 pieces), the Waterloo Center for the Arts was also marking its 30th anniversary of collecting, presenting and interpreting Haitian art.

INCEPTION, INTERSECTIONS, CONNECTIONS, DIRECTIONS

an examination of Haitian and other Afro-Caribbean art;

from African roots to current trends

http://www.waterloocenterforthearts.org/hac2008.ht ml

Waterloo Center for the Arts

225 Commercial Street

Waterloo, IA 50701

phone 319-291-4490

HAS Members attended annual conferences in Washington, D.C. in July 2003, in New York city in September 2004, and in Montreal in September 2005. Conferences consist of symposiums, private tours of homes & museums, social gatherings & sometimes fundraisers. There have also been regional HAS gatherings in San Francisco and Washington.

Click this link to see over 70 photos of a very special HAS event that was held in Washington DC, November 19, 2005 -- www.puertoricans.com/FESTIVAL/nov222005

Over 100 Haitian Art enthusiasts including Haitian Ambassador The Honorable Raymond Joseph, Haitian Art Society President Larry Kent and other supporters, gathered at the Haitian Embassy in Washington D.C. on November 19, 2005 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Centre D'Art in Port-Au-Prince. Also attending were Georges Remponeau, a co-founder of the Centre D'Art, and his daughters Elsie and Rachel. Mr Remponeau received a special commendation for his efforts in establishing the historic center. The event was sponsored by the President of the Haitian Art Society Washington Metropolitan Chapter Mr Fritz Racine and his wife Gladys .