Support Artist Action Against Censorship in Providence

This fundraiser will support a new version of the art exhibit 'Nothing Living Lives Alone', after censorship and cancellation by Providence College. The artists Shey Rivera Ríos, Feda Eid, and Luana Morales, have decided to counteract the censorship of their work by installing a new iteration of the exhibit at Aunty's House, a new community space in Providence. Please join us in this action.

Your support will help us resource the time and energy needed for the install so we can still share our practice with the Providence community as intended. It will also provide resourcing for Aunty's House, a new and lovingly created community space, so they can host the exhibit. And, it will allow us to make space for repair from the harm caused by Providence College, and generate necessary space for collective learning and institutional accountability alongside our community.

We invite you to support by resourcing this important creative work and action of repair. This invitation seeks to alchemize the impacts of institutional harm and colonial violence into an opportunity to support the work of artists and culture bearers who are doing important work in their communities, and to support a new community space that uses art and culture for intergenerational collective healing.

In the spirit of this exhibit, we need each other. Together we are powerful. And together we can transform harm and build more just communities where we can hold each other with care and dignity, where we can genuinely listen and learn from varied experiences, and build futures of connection and reciprocity.

Much gratitude to you for being on this path with us.

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About Studio Loba:

Studio Loba is a performance and social practice lab in Providence, RI. Founded by artist and cultural worker Shey Ri Acu Rivera Ríos, Studio Loba produces and holds culturally-rooted art projects and design processes for liberatory futures.

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About Aunty's House:

Aunty's House is a community arts space in Providence, RI, that prioritizes care and kinship through arts-based educational programs for the people, of the people and by the people. Founded by artist Lilly Manycolors, Aunty's House provides creative learning space and educational programming for young people, and studio space for artist parents and their children, as well as a fellowship for artist mothers.

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