Thank yous and Acknowledgments

Haiti Friends and Community Collaborators

Lucy Rawson, Founder and Board President, Haiti Friends

Edward Rawson, Executive Director, Haiti Friends

Erlantz Hyppolite, Executive Director, Fonkoze USA, Maryland DC

Gloria Blaise, Haiti Timber Re-introduction Program (HTRIP)

Darlène Dubuisson, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

Joel Aaronson and Claire Keyes, Collectors of Latin American Art

Rob Long, Clear Story

Robyn Hollingshead, Haiti Friends Consultant

Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite, HTRIP Founder

LACC Exhibit Team

Sandra Budd, Assistant Director, Exhibit Designer, and Curator of LACC

Bill DeWalt and Sylvia Keller, Senior Advisors to LACC

Chris Smith, Grey Aria Design Studio

William Graves, Mount maker and exhibition installer

Ethan Marks, Exhibit installer

Sarah Erwin, Registrar

Samuel Stuart, Registrar

Lazaros Amanatidis, Director of Information Systems and Software Development

Anna Ruscalleda, Translator

Special Thanks

Lucy Rawson, founder of Haiti Friends, collected Haitian art over the last 60 years. She worked with artist in every department of Haiti with a special focus on the artists of the Artibonite. Over the decades of buying and selling Haitian art some of her favorite works ended up in her private collection culminating in this Haiti: Culture, Religion, and Revolution exhibition.

Erlantz Hyppolite, Executive Director of Fonkoze USA, wrote and recorded the interpretations of Haiti: Culture, Religion, and Revolution exhibition pieces. Fonkoze is a family of three organizations that delivers financial and non-financial services—including microfinance, education, and health support—to empower Haiti's most vulnerable communities, particularly women, to lift their families out of poverty and build sustainable livelihoods.

Darlène Dubuisson, crafted the narrative text of the Haiti: Culture, Religion, and Revolution exhibition leaning into her scholarly work on the History of Haiti, Black radicalism, feminism, social and political movements, imagination, migration and diaspora, and crises and futures.

Bill DeWalt and Sylvia Keller, Senior Advisors to LACC For worked closely with the Haiti Friends team to reimagine the Latin American Cultural Center to tell the story of Haiti: Culture, Religion, and Revolution

Sandra Budd, who worked tirelessly curating with the Haiti Friends team and creating the visual display for the exhibition and painstakingly caring for and honoring the art while designing and curating the museum.