Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prominent Haitian artist and former Guggenheim fellow Marilene Phipps opened an exhibit of her artwork last Friday at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, drawing in a crowd of approximately 40 people...
...exhibit was fueled by her "love for Haitian culture and the influence of voodoo religion on it," she said...
...This exhibit brings in work by a very talented artist. I think it's vibrant, colorful and interesting. In an interesting way it's linked to her experience of Haitian culture...
Alex R. Karam '00 said, "This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about Haitian culture...
...success as a writer came quickly. She graduated from Barnard College in 1990 and earned an M.F.A. from Brown three years later. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, a semi-autobiographical tale of a Haitian girl reunited with her mother in the U.S., was published in 1994. The lyrical and haunting short-story collection Krik? Krak! came out the following year. And earlier this year, Danticat won the literary lottery when Oprah Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory as the June selection for her hugely popular on-air book club. "The call came out of the blue," says Danticat...