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Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (Exhibition)
birth: 1998 October 10
death: 1998 January 3
Exhibition. Opened in October 10, 1998 and closed January 3, 1999. Located in Section 3, Floor 3 in Gallery 3 at the American Museum of Natural History. "Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou" was an exhibition exploring the arts produced within the Afro-Caribbean religion of Vodou.
Summary
"Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou" was an exhibition exploring the arts produced within the Afro-Caribbean religion of Vodou. The exhibition featured more than 500 objects--including paintings, sequined flags, sacred bottles, pots, painted calabashes, beaded rattles, bound medicine packets, dolls, musical instruments, and multimedia assemblages-- on loan from public and private collections in the United States, Haiti, and Europe. A Vodou temple was re-created for the exhibition which also featured music, slides, video, and large-format photographs. Also on view was the work of artists who drew inspiration from their religion including work of Hector Hyppolite; George Liautaud; Antoine Oleyant; Edouard Duval-Carrie; Pierrot Barra and Fritz St. Jean. The exhibition was organized by the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation. The presentation at the American Museum of Natural History was organized by Enid Schildkrout, chair and curator in the Museum's Department of Anthropology and was made possible through the support of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Endowment Fund. The exhibit was on view in Gallery 3 of the American Museum of Natural History from October 10, 1998 through January 3, 1999.
Individuals and institutions involved in the creation of the exhibition: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History; Enid Schildkrout; Hector Hyppolite; George Liautaud; Antoine Oleyant; Edouard Duval-Carrie; Pierrot Barra; Fritz St. Jean.