Jasmin Joseph

1924 – 2005

Joseph was born in Grande River du Nord and worked sculpting clay and brick at a factory where he was noticed by Jason Seley, a notable American sculptor, who was teaching at the Centre d-Art.  Joseph soon joined the Centre d’Art in 1948 at the behest of Seley.

Joseph took up painting and sculpture and by the 1950's he had contributed to the “Stations of the Cross” mural for the Episcopal Cathedral of Ste. Trinite, as well as a choirscreen fashioned of open-sculpted terra cotta.  Both of which were lost in the 2010 earthquake.  

His work is exhibited in the permanent collections of the Musee d’Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre in Port-au-Prince, the Davenport Museum of Art in Iowa, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Antheneum in Hartford, the Waterloo Museum of Art in Iowa, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.