We’ve all come here with gifts to share with humanity. Storytelling, Art and connecting with people from cultures around the world are mine and this is the space I’ve created to share it with you.
Alexandra Antoine is an interdisciplinary Haitian-American Visual Creative working at the intersection of food, art and community through storytelling, visual design and education.
She has over a decade of experience in community engagement through the arts and hospitality space, classroom education and curriculum design, crafting and executing independent travel learning trips all while growing ancestral crops in community gardens, growing her relationship to land.
She received an undergraduate degree from a fancy art school and exhibited her work in numerous galleries, community spaces and most recently, the BUTTER Art Fair 2026.
Artist Statement
My work creates pathways for the stories, memories and traditional practices of my ancestors, elders and community to be shared and uplifted. Gathering knowledge through apprenticeships, independent study trips and oral stories are central to my process of remembering. I reflect on memories of communal experiences with my loved ones, the oral histories shared within these spaces, the native language of my people and its use in sustaining my connection to land and spirit.
I utilize a range of materials necessary to depict my intended vision and is therefore interdisciplinary in practice. My paintings express the linear, topographical layers of beauty I see within my people. The food collages I create pay homage to the abundance of culinary knowledge within the kitchen spaces of melanated folks throughout the global diaspora and the alchemy created in our kitchens. The installations and culinary spaces I have produced reflect my intentionality in gathering community members around remembering and nourishment.
My podcast Honoring Our Ancestral Practices is my way of archiving the work I have done traveling throughout the global diaspora learning traditional art and culinary practices over the past decade while sharing tips on how other black creatives can do the same.
In all of my work, I honor the people and land of Léogâne, Haiti