Mireille Pérodin Jérôme, art critic, gallery owner, art curator, teacher, died days shy of her 71st birthday. Photo by le Centre d'Art
Mireille Pérodin Jérôme, art critic, gallery owner, art curator, teacher, died days shy of her 71st birthday. Photo by le Centre d'Art

PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Haitian artistic community is mourning one of its members, art critic Mireille Pérodin Jérôme, who died days shy of her 71st birthday on April 13.

"Mireille Pérodin has greatly contributed to the promotion of Haitian plastic arts," said Minister of Culture Emmelie Prophète Milcé in a statement released Saturday, the day Jérôme died. "[She] made it possible to discover or get to know artists better by producing texts on their work."

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Mireille Pérodin Jérôme was an art critic who greatly contributed to the promotion of Haitian plastic arts

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I am Juhakenson Blaise, a journalist based in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I cover the news that develops in this city and deals with other subjects related to the experience of Haitians for the Haitian Times newspaper. I am also a lover of poetry.