MADAMAS: Women, Madonnas, and Mothers

TUN-TUN: A MAGIC NIGHT

The Puerto Rican Institute for Arts and Advocacy, Inc., in Collaboration with URI Feinstein Providence Campus and the International Gallery For Heritage and Culture present at the Annual Black History Month Exhibit and Events

MADAMAS: Women, Madonnas, and Mothers
at AFRICAN-AMERICAN: IDENTITY
Living on Both Sides of the Hyphen Exhibit
January 23–February 24

Reception:January 31, 2012 @ 5:00p.m.-7:00p.m.
The reception will include music by The Groovalottos, Yoruba 2 with Black Poems by Carlos Cruz, Lydia Perez with Bomba Music, and local spoken word performers.

URI Feinstein Providence Campus
1st and 2nd floor
80 Washington St., Providence, RI

MADAMA Exhibition, curated by the Puertorican Waleska Santiago, the Artist-Researcher in Latin American & Caribbean Art. This exhibition will be presented as part of the URI Providence Campus and International Gallery of Heritage and Culture sponsored AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: Identity, Living on Both Sides of the Hyphen exhibit and events. The exhibit will explore the notion of Cultural Identity(s) and the complex issues and the conflicts that surround the 'hyphen' e.g. Afro-American, Afro-Asian, Afro-Caribbean (Puerto Rico,
Cuba, Republica Dominicana, Haiti), Afro-Latino, Afro-Native including experiences of those who find that they must balance their inclusion in multiple ethnic cultures, those who find they must choose identification in one of their cultural identities and those who experience exclusion from both sides of the hyphen. The URI exhibit will include artwork in all media from more than fifty local professional and community based artists such as: Gregorio Aleman, Sharon Armour, Isabel Baez, Tyna Braxton, Marlene Britto, Tallibah and Carlos Cabral, Tamara Diaz, Felix Diclo, Kim Ellery, Manuel Fernando, George Garcia, Stephen Gross, Jerock, Evangelista Jimenez, Todd Jones, Victor Justo, Nixon Ledger, Leonard Lentini, Titilola O. Martins, Cindy Taylor Meeks, Donna Mitchell, Munir Mohammed, Onna Moniz John, James Montford and his class project, Carole Moody, Peaceable Kingdom, Lydia Perez, Hannah Ressiger, Gaddier Rosario, Basma Samira, Waleska Santiago, Brittanny Tayor, Simone Spruce Torres, Anita Trezvant, Daniel Walker,Penny Gamble.

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