Haiti Grand Rue Artists-1

Port-Au-Prince, HAITI - A sculpture made of bicycle parts and plastic bottles at Frantz Jacques Guillodo's workshop off Grand Rue (Main Street) in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, September 28, 2007. Guillodo is slowly gaining world renown for his mixed media Vodou-related pieces made of found objects.

Haiti Grand Rue Artists-2

Port-Au-Prince, HAITI - A sculpture made of a baby doll's head pins and other objects by Frantz Jacues Guillodo in his workshop off Grand Rue (Main Street) in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, September 28, 2007. Guillodo is slowly gaining world renown for his mixed media Vodou-related pieces...

Immigrant, Artist, Curator, Stinky Folk Hero?

REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - People think Silvio Barile is crazy, and Barile knows this. It's not just that his Italian restaurant has become a museum for the crude, hulking concrete statues he labors over year round. Or that he freely airs disdain for America, which he also claims to love. Or that...