PUERTO RICAN
POPULAR ARTS
Vejigante Masks exhibits, performance, Comparsa
And Apprenticeship Program
SUMMER 2021
The relaxation show is announced on a hot afternoon. Los Vejigantes were present at the inauguration and ribbon cutting of their new gallery at the main entrance of Kent Hospital.
We appreciate the support of our local Arts Agency, (RISCA), through the traditional and folk arts program, and New England for the Arts, (NEFA) with the New England Resilience Funds.
We appreciate the support of our local Arts Agency, (RISCA), through the traditional and folk arts program, and New England for the Arts, (NEFA) with the New England Resilience Funds.
Traditional Teaching-artist, Lydia Perez and Grisel Lopez
Performance in Kent Hospital, Warwick, RI
Lydia dancing Bomba for Dr. Robert J. Haffey, president and chief operating officer of Kent Hospital.
L to R: Lydia Perez, Founder and Artistic Director of PRIAA, Dr. Dionne Wright Poulton, Ph.D., and Chief Diversity Officer and 2021 Apprentice, Mrs. Grisel López
Vejigante de Loiza
Thank you to our new associates, Care New England of Rhode Island and Kent Hospital Warwick, RI.
PRIAA has been an honor to be the pioneers in exhibiting in this prestigious gallery, which for Warwick is synonymous with Health; The Gallery is located at the main entrance to Kent Hospital. Inclusion and diversity have been the motive for our masks to be breaking barriers in this beautiful town where I have lived for more than 30 years. If you have time, read the Dr. Vidal Community Gallery, and you will feel my feelings of being so honored.
Thanks to the support of NEFA funds, we have been able to bring learning performance and events to different location in Rhode Island.
We were able to work with the Visual Arts and Muralism, Professor Mr. Alfonso Acevedo and his students from the Millennium Arts Factory, sponsoring their students and Master Acevedo.
We were able to sponsor the 2nd International Hispanic American Theater of Village Theater.
We were able to presents Las Pleneras de Rhode Island 2021.
We were able to bring strength and support to smaller organization and artists from New England, Southern and Rhode Island. Example: on the Commemorations of the Constitution of Puerto Rico, in (Providence and Central Falls), and support perform in the Refugees Dream Center for celebrate the Refugee Day 2021.
We were able to sponsor a Providence Salsa Night event coordinating by Accion Latina de Rhode Island, ALRI, in partnership with the City of Providence, Mayor George Elorza.
Thank you RISCA, NEFA for your support of our 2021 programs
The Puerto Rican Institute for the Arts and Advocacy, Inc., PRIAA is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts through the New England Arts Resilience Fund, part of the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund, an initiative of the US Regional Arts Organizations and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with significant funding from the federal CARES Act of the National Endowment for the Arts.
