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On decolonizing your creative practice

Artist and arts manager Shey Rivera Ríos on the value of cultivating relationships and building community, the importance of engaging with people offline, and changing the way we think about empathy and creativity.

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MEJUNJE: Flora y Falda

A live installation of video and dance, a celebration of AfroCaribbean dance and music! Collaboration with AS220, Shey Rivera, Executive Director and Artist....

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Providence Art Culture Tourism

Shey Rivera Rios, AS220 Artistic Director believes that PVDFest not only celebrates Providence’s diverse and vibrant community, but also supports local artists to realize their dreams of creating...

Shey Rivera interview about the City of Providence’s massive #PVDFEST a city-wide arts and music festival over 4 days with 18 stages, community programming, theater, performances, marktes, skateboarding, media installations, public art, and more! Hosted by the Dept of Arts, Culture + Tourism of the City of Providence and The Office of Mayor Elorza. #Providence #ArtsFestivals

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20180720A_Fab14: Day5

Video: Videlio Events Toulouse Director: Florian Jonasz Audio: Defi Audio

Key Note Speaker on “ACCESS” at #FAB14 #FAB14France 

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Dismantling Colonial Fantasies About Puerto Rico

In Shey Rivera Ríos’s new installation, the island “miracle” that’s marketed to mainland American consumers is simulated and détourned.

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Special Guest Artist at the Indie Grits Festival hosted by the Nickelodeon Theater in South Carolina. 

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RI Profile: Shey Rivera

What do you remember most fondly about Foo Fests past? Oh, so many things – what I love is that the core focus is on LOCAL artists and local entrepreneurs and food vendors, so you walk in and see all these folks who are involved with the community. It’s a great snapshot of what’s going on locally

Artist Profile in Motif Magazine, RI

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Photo Essay: Looking for Leverage in the Providence Community Innovation Lab - ArtsFwd

Dilan Alvarado and Jose Navarro-Robles at AS220 Youth in Providence produced this photo essay documenting the second Providence workshop, Looking for Leverage.

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Latino artists fight to been seen in S.A., elsewhere

“Unfortunately, as we all know, that’s not a unique situation,” said Shey Rivera, artistic director of AS220, an arts center in Providence, Rhode Island, during her keynote speech Friday before an audience of Latino artists and arts administrators gathered at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center for the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture’s 30th Regional Arts Training Workshop. Rivera was referencing the recent controversy that erupted when the Guadalupe withdrew as the host of the 2016 Contemporary Art Month Perennial exhibition in March because of a lack of Latina artists in the all-female show. Hernandez said she and Gamez are hoping to tour the show to keep the conversation about representation going and “to (make) sure that it’s a priority on people’s minds and that it didn’t just spark and fizzle out.” Cultural organizations like the Guadalupe arose in the 1970s and early 1980s because “very deserving, very legitimate (Latino) artists were having a hard time sort of penetrating into mainstream arts and culture institutions,” said Jerry Ruiz, executive director of the Guadalupe. “Right now, the single most important thing, the biggest issue facing the Latino arts field is this issue of cultural equity, of us not having the resources that we need to help artists to produce work, maintain the work, for our organizations to really be able to thrive,” de León said.

Key Note Speaker at the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, in Detroit, MI

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La isla fantastic or Fantasy Island -- A Performance and Installation Art Show

Sheyla (Shey) Rivera Rios was born in Puerto Rico. Leaving her homeland some seven years ago, she landed in Providence at the advice of a mentor. With a new role as artistic director at AS220, her creative passion is as deep as her Caribbean roots. Bienvenido! Fantasy island is a combination of w

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AS220 celebrating 30 years as one of state's top arts and performance center

Despite its humble beginnings — it was founded in a former storage room in the Providence Performing Arts Center in 1985 — AS220 now ranks

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Motif contributor Kim Kinzie recently spoke with local artist Shey Rivera about her upcoming Fluxus Cabaret. Kim Kinzie: I’ve never heard of a Fluxus Cabaret. What can one expect at one of your shows? Shey Rivera: Expect the unexpected. Jason Curzake and I have created this interactive collec

Fluxus Moon Cabaret interview