Gesner Armand (1936 - 2008)

He started his career at the age of fourteen in 1956, at the Haitian Art Center where he studied drawing under the supervision of Maurice Borno and watercolor with Pierre Monosiet. In 1984, Armand became the director of the Museum of Haiti Art of College St. Pierre. He remained in that post until 1992. In 1986, he worked for two months at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts beside other artists, writers and composers. His compilation of poems entitled "L'autre bord" edited by Les Editions Mémoires was published in 1992 Published in: Nadal, Marie-Jose and G. Bloncourt. 1986.