While Heliotrope Foundation aided in building a community center in Cormiers Haiti in 2010, with their project Konbit Shelter, they started to bring in art supplies and began running drawing classes for local kids. These efforts turned into what is now called Klub Obzevatwa which is an ongoing effort comprised of a team of local artists in Cormiers that serve as the instructors, who impart educational projects for the children each week. Class projects range from drawing, cooking, tile-setting, earthquake preparedness, Haitian culture and history and of course, they leave time for games, song and dance.
The Klubs first project was a guided inquiry into light, shadow and optics, designed with the intention of activating the domed community center as a place of learning and curiosity for children. My roll in this project was to both travel to Haiti, work with the community and then illustrate the functionality of various aspects of the optics and tools that where used in the workshop to help describe the project to people outside of Cormiers with the hopes of putting a book together.
