Michel Martelly in a run-off election scheduled for 20 March 2011. On 4 April 2011, a senior official announced that Martelly had won the presidential run-off election against candidate Mirlande Manigat with more than 60% of the vote. In 2015 an award-winning feature documentary, Sweet Micky for President was released. The film intimately chronicles Martelly's campaign journey as told through one of his first supporters, Pras Michel of the Fugees. The film was directed by Ben Patterson and released on Showtime After the devastating earthquake, Martelly was sworn in as President of Haiti on 14 May 2011, marking the first time in
John de Martelly Martelly Benton’s job as head of the Painting Department. De Martelly was furious and quit. De Martelly’s lithographs, sold through the Associated American Artists Galleries in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, captured the essence of the rural American landscape. Eventually, de Martelly took a position as artist-in-residence at Michigan State University in East Lansing. By the late 1940s, de Martelly abandoned Regionalism for Abstract Expressionism and closely studied Daumier. His drawings, paintings, and prints are now in the collections of many museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,