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Eighty years after its founding, Le Centre d'Art is still teaching Haiti how to see itself.
Marie-Claire Joseph
Curator-in-Residence · May 3, 2026 · 15 min read
When DeWitt Peters opened the doors of Le Centre d'Art in 1944, he could not have imagined that within a decade Haitian painting would be hanging at MoMA.
"Haitian art is not naive. It is precise about a world the rest of us are only beginning to notice."— André Pierre
ArtHeritagePort-au-Prince
