Exhibición de Santos de Puerto Rico - PRIAA

Exhibición de Santos de Puerto Rico.



Traditional Saints and free Expression from Puerto Rico made in Rhode Island by Residents of RI.



Under The Southern New England Traditional Arts apprenticeship program, (SNETAAP), Master/artisan Carlos Santiago from Massachusetts transfers his knowledge to the apprentices Lydia Perez, Yidell Rivera in (Apprentices 2016-2017), ; and since that day we continue with Olga Silva and Alicea Preza (Aprendices 2021-2022), and Amanda De Grace and Kelly Garratt (Apprentices 2023-2024) all of or with a Puerto Rican background heritage. The project began in January 2016 and continue today day. We are happy to Introduces our first Exhibition of Saints of Puerto Rico (Private Collection) to all Rhode Islanders, to tell everybody that our heritage is alive.



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.