CREATE! Kids Art-Making Studio with GO GO MOAD

Immerse your children in Haitian art and culture while fostering their creativity! This year’s activity invites participants to reflect on identity, belonging, and resilience through collaborative artwork. Led by artist Asser Saint-Val, children will express stories of home, culture, and memory. Plus, enjoy engaging historical puzzles from Game Time Ayiti, sparking fun and learning around Haiti’s vibrant past.

ASSER SAINT-VAL was born in Port-de-Paix, Haiti, and is an award-winning South Florida-based multidisciplinary artist, painter, sculptor, installation artist, graphic designer, and musician. He has had several solo and group shows throughout South Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee, as well as in cities such as New York, Washington, D.C., Fort Myers, and Boca Raton. Internationally, Saint-Val has exhibited in Argentina and throughout the Caribbean, including Haiti, the Bahamas, Grenada, Aruba, Havana, Cuba’s Santiago de Cuba, and Puerto Rico. In 2017, an installation of his work was selected to represent Paris Perfume’s new cologne, Pour Un Homme CARON Sport, during Miami Art Week. Saint-Val is a 2006 and 2011 recipient of the Consortium Award for mixed-media paintings, and was awarded an Artist Access Grant and the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Incubator grant in 2017, among other accolades. He has BFAs in painting and graphic design from the New World School of the Arts and the University of Florida, and his work is represented in many private and public collections.