Antoine Oleyant was born in the mountain village
of Plaisance du Sud in Haiti. As a child, he worked on the
family farm and at the age of 16, he moved
to Port-au-Prince and trained with wood and metal sculptors. In the early 1980s
Olyeant began making drapo Vodou and was influential
in transforming the genre from craft to high art. Oleyant died unexpectedly
at the age of 37 but continues to be celebrated as
a master artist of drapo Vodou.
