PUERTO RICAN INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS AND ADVOCACY, INC.
CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER
Puerto Rican wooden Santos Apprentices exhibition
SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2023 AT 11:30 AM - 3:00PM
Under The Southern New England Traditional Arts apprenticeship program, (SNETAAP), Master/artisan Carlos Santiago from Massachusetts transfers his knowledge to the apprentice AMANDA DEGRACE; Puerto Rican heritage. They also joined the project Apprentices of the year 2016 and 2022. The project began in January and will be completed with a large public event, this Sunday, March 12, 2023.
This project fosters the sharing of traditional (folk) artistic skills through the apprenticeship learning model of regular, intensive, one-on-one teaching by a master artist from either RI, MA, or CT with apprentices from one of the other states, as a way of knitting together members of the same community or group across state lines. Teaching and learning traditional arts help to sustain cultural expressions that are central to a community, while also strengthening festivals, arts activities, and events of which the master and apprentice artists will perform or demonstrate their results of cooperative learning to public audiences.
The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program at the Connecticut Historical Society manages the program in collaboration with the Folk Arts Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council, with independent Folklorist Winifred Lambrecht.
Our program is made possible by The Southern New England Apprenticeship Program, with funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and supported by Connecticut Humanities, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut Officer of the Arts (DECD), and the Mass Cultural Council, and the City of Providence.
The Cultural Heritage Center programs is made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the RI - Pawtucket City Hall - Mayor's Office, Department of Arts Culture and Tourism, City of Providence, Rodriguez Family Fund by the Rhode Island Foundation; and Papitto Opportunity Connection.
Free and open to the public. All are welcome!
