#HeartofHaiti Blogger Ambassador Ananda Leeke's Visit to Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti

Watch Heart of Haiti blogger ambassador Ananda Leeke, a lawyer-turned author, artist, coach, yoga teacher, and innerpreneur, share her insights about visiting Haitian metal artisan Serge Jolimeau's atelier on February 26, 2011, in Croix des Bouquets, a town located outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The video highlights Jolimeau's world reknown metal artwork made from oil cans. His metal artwork is featured and sold in the Heart of Haiti collection at Macy's. He also serves as a community leader for the Association of Artists and Artisans of Croix des Bouquets.

About Serge Jolimeau:

Jolimeau, a native of Croix des Bouquets, was born in 1952. Croix des Bouquets is the home of several great Haitian sculptors including the late Georges Liautaud and Murat Brierre, the brothers Louisjuste, and Gabriel Bien-Aimé. As a child, he as inspired by the blacksmiths in his village. After he completed high school, he worked as an apprentice under metal sculptor Serisier Louisjuste. His artwork reflects his family's farming background, fertile imagination, and passion for Haitian Voodoo and folklore, the human body, animals, and figures from mythology. His work has been published in Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988), Forgerons duVodou/ Voodoo Blacksmiths (Foubert, 1990), and A Haitian Celebration: Art and Culture (Stebich, 1992). He has shown his work at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, LACITA in Biarritz, France, and in Germany, Haiti, and Mexico. To learn more about Jolimeau, visit the links below.

1) http://www.gardenartists.cc/leprimitif/one_of_a_kinds__serge_jolimeau.htm

2) http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_haiti_jolimeau.html

3) http://www.folkartmarket.org/index.php/profiles/entry/serge_jolimeau

4) http://www.haitianpainting.com/hp.asp?page=ARTISTS_PORTFOLIO&id=31

5) http://www.haitisupportgroup.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl...

About the Heart of Haiti:

The Heart of Haiti campaign is a partnership between Fairwinds Trading, Macy's, and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. It was created to provide sustainable income to Haitian artisans impacted by the January 2010 earthquake. Through the partnership, the artisans create artwork that is sold as the Heart of Haiti collection in Macy's stores. The sales from these hand-made products including quilts, metalwork, paper måché, painting and jewelry generate the sustainable income and provide trade instead of aid to the Haitian artisans. To learn more, visit http://www.macys/com/haiti and http://twitter.com/heartofhaiti.


About Ananda Leeke:

Visit http://www.anandaleeke.com and Amazon.com http://ow.ly/46t6a to learn more about Ananda's work as an author and artist who weaves Haitian culture, spirituality, and history into her creativity. Read her Heart of Haiti blogs too: http://authoranandaleeke.wordpress.com/category/heart-of-haiti. Also, follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/anandaleeke.

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