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 © Noelle Théard, Seamstress, Haiti series  © Noelle Théard, Haitian Independance, Haiti series  © Noelle Théard, Police, Haiti series |
Noelle Théard Born: 1979, El Paso, TX Resides: New York, NY Heritage: Haitian and French Selected Exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts, Brooklyn, NY 2011 Miami Art Salon,, Miami, FL 2010 Mobile Alabama Museum of Art, Mobile, AL 2010 Fourth All Media Juried Biennial, Hollywood, FL 2009 McKenna Museum, New Orleans, LA 2008 Miami Dade Public Library, Miami, FL 2008 Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL 2008 Education: MFA, 2013, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, NY MA, 2010, Florida Intentional University, Miami, FL BA, 2001, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Publications: Nueva Luz photographic journal, Volume 16#3 (En Foco: Bronx, 2012) Artist’s Statement: Haiti drew me in like a magnet I remember listening to my father’s Haitian records as a kid, and the day he taught me how to eat a mango in my grandmother’s kitchen while she was cooking traditional Haitian food. Born in Port-au-Prince, my dad served in the U.S. Army, and landed in the desert of El Paso, Texas, where I was born and grew up, more than a thousand miles away from the Caribbean. I always wanted to visit Haiti; it was always too dangerous. It was not until I was eighteen that I went to Haiti for the first time. All those years of curiosity built up tremendous expectation in me. I wanted to know what it meant to be Haitian. I spent the next seven years travelling there whenever I could. I have seen the country during times of turmoil and times of relative calm, and I made every effort to travel and see as much of the country as possible. When the earthquake hit in 2010, I co-founded a non-profit called FotoKonbit to teach photography so that Haitians could tell their own stories. Haiti is a beautiful and complicated country—the first Black republic—and the images in this series highlight the deep reverence and respect that I have for the country and its people. Website: |
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