The latest addition to the Crosses and Crucifixes page in the Schools of Sacred Art section is a crucifix made from a recycled oil drum by Haitian Folk Artist Michee Ramil Remy, who has a studio workshop in Croix-des-Bouquets. This market town eight miles northeast of Port-du-Prince is an internationally renowned center for metal art-making. Remy learned the trade from his stepfather, Gabriel Bien-Aime, who was schooled in the craft by local blacksmiths, skilled in reworking scrap metal into crosses for the local cemetery. Haitian sacred art is a combination of African, French, Voodoo and Roman Catholic motifs. In Remy's Crucifix, birds perch beside Christ on a cross from which a flower blooms, turning this emblem of redemptive death into a Tree of Life. Remy was chosen in 2009 to create a commemorative award for the Clinton Global Initiative, a "think tank" founded by President Bill Clinton in 2005 to foster international development programs like the recycled metal art workshops in Croix-des-Bouquets. (John Kohan)