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.

Save the Dates! 

    The Washington DC chapter and the National HAS will present 

"Mystical Imagination:

The Art of Haitian Master 

Hector Hyppolite"

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 

Mystical Imagination is presented in collaboration with the Haïtian Art Society, the Permanent Mission of Haiti to the Organization of American States, and the Waterloo Center for the Arts of Iowa.

Opening the HAS National Conference in DC there will be a Garden Party on

Thursday, June 11, 2009, 6:00-11:00pm 

An evening with collectors, scholars, and dignitaries in celebration of the exhibit.

For details about tickets, see   www.has-dc.org  

A catalog is in the works 

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

And... 

The Haitian Art Society Annual Conference

June 11-13, 2009  Washington DC

For details and registration see links at 

http://www.haitianartsociety.org/custom.html 

We will have the opportunity to tour the Hyppolite show, visit  fabulous private collections, and see the traveling exhibit from the Fowler Museum, curated by  Henry John Drewal, at the National Museum of African Art: 

  Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and its Diaspora.

http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/mamiwata/index.html 

www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03wata.html 

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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.