If you want to support Dominicans Love Haitians Movement you can make a tax-deductible contribution directly via the "DONATE" button above, or can send a check, made out to "Culture Push, Inc." and earmarked in the memo line for “Dominicans Love Haitians Movement” to 241 E. 7th St. #3C, New York, NY 10009.

Mission: Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is an art-based non-profit organization using various art modalities as an antiracist tool. Our goal is to celebrate our commonalities, honour our differences to dismantle racialized discrimination, bias and prejudice forging a future free from tyranny. 

Clarivel Ruiz daughter from Kiskeya Ayiti Bohio (aka Hispaniola aka the Dominican Republic and Haiti), raised in NYC on the ancestral bones and covered shrines of the Lenape people. In 2016 we initiated Dominicans Love Haitians Movement to celebrate the beauty of our commonalities and heal from the traumas of colonization. We are alumni of Hemispheric Institute’s EmergeNYC, Culture Push’s Utopian Fellow, a Civic Practice Seminar participant at the Metropolitan Museum, The Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship at CCCADI,  a 2019 Brooklyn Arts Council award recipient and an MFA graduate of CUNY, City College.

Black Doll Timeline:
In 2017 we initiated the Black Doll Project as an act of affirmation, sending Black Dolls that have been donated and hand made to Kiskeya Ayiti (Hispaniola) to assert the love and power of our Blackness, our Negritud(e). As people of colour, we have been stigmatized by racialization, xenophobia, and antiblackness. By sending a Black Doll to a child in Haiti and the Dominican Republic we are reaffirming our existence and empowering our children to love, see and imagine their future selves.

Our message is a reminder that they are valued and that they matter.To date over 300 donated and handmade Black dolls and love letters have been delivered to young people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 

April 2018 in Partnership with UMass, Boston young girls at The Mariposa Foundation, Cabarete, DR received 40 hands made dolls that were created by a group of Caribbean women co-creating and coming together to create these hand made dolls as an act of liberation which inspired us to further expand this concept.Aug 2018 handmaking workshop and gallery exhibit  “The Sewing Room-Hands on Black Freedom”, NutureARTSMarch 2019  “Forming the Sacred Doll”,  “Show Don’t Tell: A Symposium with The Fellowship for Utopian Practice “ Forming the Sacred Doll Workshop and Alumni Panel discussion, Culture Push, June 2019 In partnership with Be The Tree Young Women Rites conducted an 8-week program at M.S. 80, Bronx to twelve middle schools students.August 2019 Intergenerational doll-making workshop during El Museo Del Barrio, Uptown Bounce celebrating Afro-Dominican culture.August 2019, in partnership with students from UMass, Boston and The Dream Project, Cabarete, DR we provided a Summer Camp Antiracist Art Workshops to 30 students with doll making, mural/visual arts and photo-essay.