Join us for an evening of conversation and celebration surrounding the culmination of work from the LakouNOU 2024 Artists-In-Residence over the past year.
Expo Showcase
Thursday, May 1, 2025
6-9pm
The 2024 Lakou NOU Culminating Expo highlights four expressive and collaborative projects that seek to empower, understand, and archive the Haitian experience. This cohort of artists explore core themes of personal and collective history, identity, and creative empowerment in Brooklyn’s Haitian community. Through oral history, creative cultural mapping, multimedia and visual art installations, Lakou NOU artists-in-residence Tania Balan-Gaubert, Zamí Germain, Watson Mere, and Stephanie Pierre welcome us into a dynamic experience highlighting the power of storytelling, documentation, and cultural narrative.
This free event and week-long exhibition presents the artists’ work in conversation with each other, highlighting their distinct approach to unpacking stories and approaches to cultural preservation in Brooklyn.
Unlike traditional artmaking, where an artistic creation amplifies a sole perspective, Lakou NOU residents generated their projects collaboratively with community members, providing creative outlets to convey inner experiences and share histories that are rarely shared or often under-presented. The Lakou NOU Culminating Expo will include visual art installations, audio soundscapes, participatory workshops, spoken word and musical performances, and an interactive map.
Established in 2016, Haiti Cultural Exchange’s Lakou NOU artist residency program provides artists of Haitian descent with the opportunity to create and present new work by connecting their skills and talents to historically underserved Brooklyn neighborhoods, home to generations of Haitians and Haitian-Americans: Crown Heights, Canarsie, East Flatbush, and Flatbush. Lakou NOU artists develop collaborative community engagement projects that address neighborhood issues and highlight community assets. Artists in residence received individualized mentorship from HCX staff and interacted with each other as a cohort through discussion and support around topics relevant to Lakou NOU projects. HCX-facilitated additional professional development workshops and exchanges with a consortium of community stakeholders and creative placekeeping professionals.
Exhibition On View
Sunday, April 27 – Sunday, May 4, 2025
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Sunday, 1-6pm;Wednesday by appointment.
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This program is made possible in part by the Jerome Foundation.
