Public Health Billboard, c.1989. Haiti				2 of 5   Folk Art Today
	CHANGE AND CONTINUITY n the past century, all over Latin America, society has undergone major changes. Despite modern development, folk art remains an elemental ingredient of Latin American society and culture. Folk art is amazingly resilient—capable of being altered and molded to meet whatever changes take place. Oaxacan wood-carvers who once made images of saints for local religious needs, might now carve figures for export in order to cope with a difficult economy. Folk painters in Haiti, who traditionally painted pictures of their daily lives for themselves, now paint Haitian public health posters and billboards. Folk art dies, alters, and reemerges anew always responding to the needs of a changing environment.