NATIONAL ARTIST EXPRESSED HERSELF THROUGH HER CULTURE AND HERITAGE BRINGING THE BEST OF PUERTO RICO Lydia Perez, Performing Arts Lydia Perez – Born in San Juan, Capital of Puerto Rico, she grew up in the town of “La Central” or “Hoyo Mula de Canóvanas”. She graduated from the Inter-American University, Magna Cum Laude, in June of 1989, with a Bachelor's in Business Administration. Four months later, she and her husband decided to move to Attleboro, Massachusetts. A year later, her husband bought a house in Warwick, Rhode Island. She has been living in Rhode Island for 21 years. Lydia is a highly accomplished and dynamic performer. She presents traditional music, workshops and productions from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. In 1994, she and her husband founded Puertorriqueños Unidos, Inc., a non profit organization. In 2004, Puertorriqueños Unidos, Inc. changed it's name to the Puerto Rican Institute for Arts and Advocacy, or PRIAA, and became an outsta...
August 1-31, 2011 The Jasper Rand Art Museum at the Westfield Athenauem Library 6 Elm Street Westfield, Massachusett This exhibition is divided into four independent area: Photographs, Dolls, Painting, and Batiks- from Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, and Brazil.
Magdalena Gomez, Keynote of the NALAC Conference-2014 and Lydia Perez, CEO of PRIAA Both are National Artists from New England "Cabezudos" of the Comparsa del Maja in the Vejigante Exhibit at Providence CityArts Vejigantes from Loiza and Ponce brought to you by PRIAA NALAC members and Alfonso Avecedo from American News NALAC at Providence CityArts washing Vejigante Exhibit of the Puerto Rican Institute for Arts and the performance of Lydia Perez and Cristopher Johnson YORUBA 2 performaced at NALAC at FETE Providence, Rhode Island AMERICAN NEWS NEWSPAPER, PHOTOS BY ALFONSO ACEVEDO THANK YOU AMERICA NEWS OF NEW ENGLAND