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Alix Baptiste was born on April 29, 1964, on a small island in Haiti. Mr. Baptiste has come a long way since his early days of survival. Mr. Baptiste is now a household name for his beautiful paintings in Savannah, Georgia. Entering his twentieth year as an artist, he owns an art gallery in City Market. There you can watch him at work though the front of his art gallery window’s to see what’s in store for his next project.
During Alix Baptiste’s childhood he had little schooling do to the lack of the families financial state. Mr. Batiste says, “ I could remember when I would go to the field’s and picked mangoes and coconuts, then take them to the city to sell for food and what school supplies I needed”. When Alix Baptiste become older he became an advent sailor, sailing to partner islands trading and selling what he could to make ends meet (Rada, “Southern Living” pg.24-26).
At the age of 21, Mr. Baptiste wanted to make something better of his life. “I wanted to......

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