Cultural and Community-Based Digital Curator
As Cultural and Community-Based Digital Curator, I look to develop interdisciplinary initiatives to enhance the learning experience of the academic and cultural community by: 1) investing in community-based documentarians who will expand library collections with new perspectives; 2) identifying funding for student internships and fellowships for research projects and engage the next generation interested in digital humanities and curation, and 3) creating a range of digital engagements to connect with underserved communities and institutions.
#WapKon…Haitian Art
As a scholar centered on re-envisioning narratives of Haiti and its arts, the user/audience experience is essential for the mapping of Haitian Art across America. This is an exciting moment where my scholarship on Haitian art is expanding and diversifying beyond dominant tropes and canons.
Haitian art lives in collections and museums all throughout the Diaspora, and as I travel to each museum and gallery in the global North and South. I look to bring awareness of the art and the artists that have shaped the Haitian narrative and the sites that the public can travel and see these cultural treasures. For more details follow me on IG@ayiti_discovered
#The LAKAY Project
LAKAY is the “Study of Haitian Kreyol Art from Yesterday to Today.” As a Haitian D’Avinci promoting art, culture, and education across Haiti and the Diaspora, I want to discover everything Haitian on my journey home. To showcase the Diaspora’s efforts to stay connected to Haiti, through engagement, appreciation, and promotion of contemporary Haitian art, art forms, and artists, I plan to create a web-based platform to showcase digital humanity initiatives.
Love Letters to Haiti
Digital Vodou
The MitanMorphic Theory
#VoodouReboot
Voudoo temples have stood for decades as a community center and informal sanctuary for artists. My research focusing on the use of contemporary art in consecrated Voudoo spaces. This initiative looks to develop the praxis of the contemporary narrative of Haitian art in an organic process connecting directly to the source of Haitian and Kreyol inspiration.
This research considers the complex role of Haitian art, from the museum and marketplace to places of worship and devotion. This reboot will build context through designing exhibition and ceremonial spaces for a network of new and emerging Voudou artists.
Vol. 57 Núm. 104 (2023): Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico Portada del número 104 del Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico - Espiritualidades no hegemónicas y arte contemporáneo de América Latina y el Caribe
In this article, the guest editor of this issue, Julián Sánchez González, talks with Petrouchka Moïse, who tells part of her experiences as digital curator of the Haitian art collection of the Waterloo Center for the Arts and Grinnell College in Iowa, the most largest of its kind in the world. Moïse presents a unique research project that enhances the use of digital humanities in educational initiatives on the art of the African diaspora. To do this, he talks about his relationship with the collector Jean-Daniel Lafontant, leader of the Na-Ri-VéH, a vodoun temple in Port-au-Prince, and the artist Tessa Mars, as a starting point for his interest in building a community defense of the cultural heritage of their country. Her work explores the possibilities of augmented reality to communicate the richness and challenges posed by preserving the philosophies and beliefs of Haitian Vodoun.
