Haiti Cultural Recovery Project


Project Staff

Experienced Cultural Workers

The Cultural Recovery Project is overseen by Dr. Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian�s Under Secretary for History, Art and Culture. He is a cultural anthropologist, author and international cultural heritage leader who has served the Smithsonian for more than three decades. He worked with Haitian colleagues to organize the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Haiti program in 2004 and now serves on UNESCO�s International Coordinating Committee for Haiti.

The Cultural Recovery Center is managed by Olsen Jean Julien, Haiti�s former Minister of Culture and Communication, who served as Program Coordinator for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Haiti program in 2004. He is a trained architect, who earned his degree at Columbia University.

Corrine Wegener is the International Coordinator for the Cultural Recovery Project . She serves as President of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, and co-organized the project. Currently a curator with the Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, she aided the stabilization of the Iraqi Museum during the Gulf War.

Stephanie Hornbeck serves as Chief Conservator for the Cultural Recovery Center. She is recently retired from the Smithsonian�s National Museum of African Art where she served as conservator for over a decade.

Other staff include

Project Liaison: Patrick Vilaire
Office Manager: Joseph Jean Baptiste Mentor
Registrar: Carmelita Douby Guilaume
Training Coordinator: Jean Malherbe Fritz Berg Jeannot
Administrative Assistant: Misly Michel
Drivers: Erikson Pierre Louis, Daliza Herold, Holibris Simon
Security: Jean Gilbert Registre, Philipeaux Fritznel
Housekeeping: Yanick Augustin
Janitorial: Jean Lenek
Helper: Hilaire Duqueres



The Cultural Recovery Center at 387 Route de Bourdon, Port-au-Prince

Staff, Haitian stakeholders and international conservators and training consultants gather at the Cultural Recovery Center in Port-au-Prince.

Special Projects Director Patrick Vilaire reviews plans with CRC Manager Olsen Jean Julien.

Special Projects Director Patrick Vilaire reviews plans with CRC Manager Olsen Jean Julien.

Original CRCH team from June 2010.

Original CRCH team from June 2010.

Expanded CRCH team in May 2011.

Expanded CRCH team in May 2011.

Conservators Krist�n G�slad�ttir, Ana�s Gailhbaud, Viviana Dominguez, and Stephanie Hornbeck .

Conservators Krist�n G�slad�ttir, Ana�s Gailhbaud, Viviana Dominguez, and Stephanie Hornbeck .