The Art of Haiti and Your Second Self-Portrait

Each group will be assigned an artist with a substantial bio; your group must view painting provided, write about it, generate questions about the artist, his/her work, etc. Research the art and the artist, revise your original thinking and writing, and, of course, reflect on this research process and how you managed it. Art is not simply a mirror of society; a work of art is one artist's efforts to engage society in a dialogue. Your challenge is to figure out what the artist is saying, to whom and why...which ultimately comes full circle back to belief, truth, limits and representation or expression. Also consider responses to the art and artist. How does society engage in the dialogue? How do members of society(s) respond to the art? What are the limits on the dialogue? What does the artist believe? What challenges this artist's beliefs? What does the artist know and what is the artist reacting to? What "truth" is the artist responding to or creating or understanding? What is the relationship between truth and belief?
	Edouard Duval-Carrié	Dieudonne Rouanez more even more

	Frantz Zephirin link2	Jean-Michel Basquiat more Basquiat paintings

	Louisianne St.Fleurant paintings sculptures	Gerard Fortune more work

details of this work		Pierrot Barra http://www.ridgeart.com/barraportfolio.html

For Danticat: (write about it, research, revise, reflect) incorporate end-of-chapter writing Read Danticat as another artist. Your challenge is to figure out what she is saying and to whom and why...(which ultimately comes full circle back to belief, truth, limits and representation or expression). How does society engage in the dialogue? How do members of society(s) respond to her art? What are the limits on the dialogue? What does she believe what challenges her beliefs - what is she reacting to? What "truth is she responding to creating/understanding? What is the relationship between truth and belief?

Reader Response When you become the society how do you dialogue back? What do you say? How do you say it? Why do you say? HDYK? Coming full circle, how does this dialogue affect/modify/challenge your initial ideals/thoughts? What do you do with this information? Do you have an obligation to engage in this dialogue? To do something with the insight gained from the dialogue?

Make a new visual (self-portrait II) that attempts to engage society in a dialogue: Interview a group member based on viewing that student's visual (view image a group member created, write about it, generate questions about the artist, his/her work, etc. Research the art and the artist, revise your original thinking and writing, and, of course, reflect on this research process and how you managed it.) How does society engage in a dialogue with this artist? How do members of society(s) respond to the art? What are the limits on the dialogue? What does the artist believe? What challenges this artist's beliefs? What does the artist know and what is the artist reacting to? What "truth" is the artist responding to or creating or understanding?

Frantz Zephirin