This mini-doc (4:20) was part of a series of mini-docs of thirteen artists — masters of Haitian painting and sculpture — who were included in the first major exhibit of Haitian Art in the U.S. at The Brooklyn Museum in 1978.  Ute Stebich, the curator of this exhibit of painting, sculpture and papier mache objects, conducted the original interviews that are featured here.   The artist videos were part of a video jukebox featured in the galleries where the work was displayed.  Two other longer video documentaries were screened on monitors in the galleries — an introduction to Haitian Art and Ra-Ra, a Haitian festival.  This was the first time video documentaries were screened in monitors inside the galleries — together with the art  — of a major museum rather than in little side booths.

The artists included in this video juke box were:  Painters:  Philome Obin, Rigaud Benoit, Salnave Philippe -Auguste, Jasmin Joseph, Gerard Valcin, Prefete Duffaut, Andre Pierre, Jacques -Enguerrand Gourgue, Bernard Sejourne, Max Gerbier, Celestin Faustin;  and the sculptors:  Georges Liautaud and Serge Jolimeau.

Serge Jolimeau — unlike some of the other so-called “naive” artists finished his schooling in his home village of Croix-des-Bouquettes, then an agricultural community and where his family were farmers. He started working in 1972 with another metal sculptor, Cerisier LouisJuste and both were, of course, influenced by the founder of metal sculpture — Georges Liautaud.