Haiti Cultural Exchange (HCX) is excited to announce our forthcoming exhibition in collaboration with the Archive of Alan Lomax (1915-2002), a pioneering ethnomusicologist for over six decades. From 1936-1937, at the urging of heralded African American anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston, Lomax traveled to Haiti to record the nation’s music and rituals on behalf of the US Library of Congress.
The Association for Cultural Equity, which stewards Lomax’s archive, selected 40 essential recordings from the nearly 50 hours of recorded sound from Haiti,
Building a conversation between the past and present, HCX invited visual artists of Haitian descent to respond and connect their own work through an Open Call.
From textiles to film, the artists selected evoke both personal and resonant responses to the recordings that most spoke to them — from lullabies to Rara, from the sacred to the Konbit. The exhibition will feature curated pairings of recordings and artwork, connecting their modes of communion and communication over time and place.
Curated by Régine M. Roumain and Micaela Walker
Featuring the work of:
Laïssa Alexis • Love Aritus • Marie Casimir • Megan Delianne • Stephanie “Philomen” Dorceant • Jennica Drice • Sydney Rose Maubert • Christopher Mitchell • Marie Guilloto Stuppard • Zarita Zevallos
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Vizyon Atistik | Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End
Artists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive
On view from September 19 to October 18, 2026
Thursday – Sunday, Wednesday by appointment.
Haiti Cultural Exchange
35 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn, NY
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Sat. Sep 19 | 6-9pm
Opening Reception and An n Pale with Artist and Gage Averill
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Sun. Oct 18 | 4-7pm
Closing Reception
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About the Artists
Laïssa Alexis
Laïssa Alexis (she/her) is a Haitian-born, Chicago-based artist, researcher, and filmmaker working across multiple mediums. She is currently making non-fiction films that broadly explore topics on Blackness, grief, death, and memory. Laïssa enjoys daydreaming about the future and hopes to use her practice to articulate these dreams.
Love Aritus
Love Aritus is a multimedia artist based in Denver, CO whose work examines memory and honors ancestry through figurative portraiture influenced by her Caribbean identity. Her work investigates how everyday rituals, domestic spaces, and cultural traditions shape identity across generations, transforming ordinary moments into visual archives of remembrance and resilience. Drawing from her familial connection to Aquin, Haiti, Love’s work explores the ways cultural traditions and family histories continue to shape contemporary identity.
Marie Casimir| Website
Marie Casimir is a Haitian-born interdisciplinary artist, producer, and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. She was raised in Spring Valley, NY following her family’s immigration from St. Michel de L’Attalaye, Haiti. Her artistic practice often blends improvisational movement, choreography, and text, exploring cultural memory and Black diasporic identity. Featured at venues across the country, including Constellation (Chicago), Oklahoma Contemporary, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, DANCE@30FPS, and the Austin Dance Festival, Casimir’s honors include a Ragdale Artist Fellowship, SixTwelve Residency Award, and a Heartland Regional Emmy nomination for her short film I Dream of Greenwood.
As the founder of Djaspora Productions, she creates interdisciplinary performances, cultural events, and global artistic exchanges that connect artists and communities across the Black diaspora. She co-founded the Instigation Festival, celebrating improvised music and dance in Chicago and New Orleans, and serves as Festival Co-Founder and producer of Juneteenth on The East (OKC). Casimir previously served as Associate Director of Links Hall, Curator of Public Programs and Performances at Oklahoma Contemporary, and taught in the Clara Luper African & African American Studies program at the University of Oklahoma. Her work can be explored at www.marie-casimir.com. Photo credit: Colin Danville
Megan Delianne | Website
Megan Delianne is a computer graphics generalist and multimedia artist based between New York and Berlin, working at the intersection of technology, history, and collective memory. Born in America to Haitian parents who emigrated in the 1990s, their practice is shaped by the experience of holding two worlds simultaneously.
Stephanie “Philomen” Dorceant | Website
Philomen is a Brooklyn, NY- and São Paulo, Brazil-based Haitian-American audiovisual artist, filmmaker, photojournalist, and cultural producer whose practice moves between both cities. Rooted in her family’s Haitian heritage and informed by a background in journalism and international media production, her work explores identity, memory, spirituality, migration, and cultural preservation through documentary film, visual storytelling, and cultural production. Her documentary Where We Walked, an intimate portrait of the Guarani people’s struggle to protect their ancestral lands in São Paulo, was officially selected for the 33rd Ecocine International Film Festival. Working across documentary, experimental film, photography, and visual arts, her practice draws from visual anthropology to examine the intersections of history, tradition, and contemporary culture.
Beyond filmmaking, Philomen co-produced Black: Cite; Sight-Site Black Arts Festival, a week-long festival presented alongside the 36th São Paulo Biennial that transformed Galeria do Reggae into a vibrant platform for contemporary Black artistic expression and public dialogue. Through her Black and Queer woman-owned production company, PhilOmen Media, she develops films and cultural initiatives that amplify the histories, traditions, and contemporary experiences of African diasporic and Indigenous communities, fostering cross-cultural dialogue and preserving cultural memory through storytelling.
Jennica Drice | Website
Jennica Drice is a Brooklyn-based textile artist and first generation Haitian American, raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her practice explores how identity is carried, altered, and reconstructed across displacement, informed by her own hyphenated experience between Haiti and the United States. Working primarily in blue through cyanotype and indigo, her work draws from personal and communal histories to explore memory, migration, and cultural inheritance.
She has exhibited across New York City and teaches workshops in cyanotype and natural dyeing.
Sydney Rose Maubert | Website
Sydney Rose Maubert (b. 1996) is a Haitian-Cuban artist and architect based in Miami. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Haiti, and her maternal grandparents from Cuba respectively. She holds degrees in architecture from Yale University and the University of Miami, with double minors in writing and art.
Maubert is the founder of Sydney R. Maubert LLC., her art and mural practice, which has been awarded by the Graham Foundation, Oolite Arts, and Locust Projects. Maubert has been awarded residencies with Artist in Residence in the Everglades (June 2023), Bakehouse Art Complex (Summer 2025), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO (Spring 2026), DVCAI in Suriname (June 2026), and a residency African Heritage Center in Miami, FL (2025- ongoing). Most notably, her work is in the 21C Museum’s permanent collection.
Maubert was the Strauch Fellow at Cornell College of Architecture (2022- 2024). Maubert is the Rowe Fellow at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture (2024- ongoing). She has assisted in teaching courses at Yale University, Morgan State University, City College of New York, and the University of Miami. Maubert sits on the board of the Center for Architecture’s Scholarship Committee (2023- ).
Christopher Mitchell | Website
Christopher Mitchell (b. 1978, New York) is a Haitian-American photographer and filmmaker whose work explores memory, place, and cultural experience across Haiti and its diaspora. Raised in South Florida, Mitchell lived in Haiti for 15 years, where he developed long-term documentary projects rooted in research, preservation, and close collaboration with local communities. Working primarily with analog film, he uses photography as a means of documenting resilience, ritual, and everyday life, creating archives of cultural traditions that are increasingly vulnerable to erasure. His practice centers on Haitian cultural traditions, particularly Kanaval Jacmel and Vodou ceremonies, as well as the evolving landscape of Little Haiti in Miami, where he currently lives and works. His long-term fieldwork in Haiti also informs two ongoing documentary films examining the ceremonial traditions of Souvenance and Gonaïves and the cultural history of Jacmel Kanaval.
Mitchell is the recipient of the Knight Foundation Art + Tech Expansion Fund, a Wavemaker Grant supported by Locust Projects and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and a Miami Individual Artist Grant. He is currently a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. Recent exhibitions include Shattered Structures at FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios, commemorating the 15th anniversary of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake; Les Sirènes at MOCA North Miami; and a solo exhibition at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. Across photography, film, and community-based archival projects, Mitchell’s practice is dedicated to preserving the cultural memory of Haiti and its diaspora.
Marie Guilloto Stuppard | Website
Marie Guilloto Stuppard is a Haitian artist raised in New York City, and living in Seattle. She paints from a place shaped by the play between islands and city blocks, between what was handed down and what had to be learned. Growing up, she adopted different ways of seeing, speaking, and belonging. That tension lives in her work.
Marie uses acrylic paint and materials that have already lived another life. Her process relies on an intuitive “pull” leading her to layer, remove, stain, and rebuild surfaces until they begin to hold weight. Marks are covered, edges blurred, objects are embedded or partially buried. What remains matters more than what is added. The work moves the way memory does—uneven, physical, resistant to comfortable narratives. She stays with uncertainty long enough for something honest to surface. Sometimes, figures appear faintly, as if resisting full visibility. They are not meant to explain themselves. They exist as traces of ancestry, of loss, of survival carried forward.
Marie’s practice holds space for what has been pushed aside or silenced. Her work acknowledges discomfort, allowing its presence to spark dialogue about heritage and the sometimes not so subtle rejection of traditions that are deemed “different”.
Zarita Zevallos | Website
Zarita Zevallos is a Haitian architect, photographer, and conceptual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, she comes from a Haitian family lineage rooted in Cap-Haïtien. She works as a Studio Lead in exterior façade restoration at a Manhattan consulting firm and spends her creative time developing conceptual artwork.
Her practice combines hand-edited photography with materials such as thread, glass, bullets, and barbed wire to create textured, layered images, and more recently she has experimented with sculptures. Through these elements, she explores themes of identity, gender, and the influence of socio-political structures. Her work uses symbolism and materiality to spark reflection, encouraging viewers to engage with both the beauty and the tension present in each piece.
Zevallos holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from CUNY and an Associate degree in Engineering from the Universidad Interamericana in San Germán, Puerto Rico. Her work has been featured in Ocean’s 8 set design and exhibited at the Steven Kasher Gallery, Chashama Galleries, Haiti Cultural Exchange, Photoville, the ICP Museum, and the University of Illinois Chicago, among other venues.