Motherlode x Relax-o-Rama
Join us for an evening of meditative rest amidst genre-defying work in Liz Collins: Motherlode. Relax, take a break, and open your senses to an immersive sound bath with artist and sound healer Shaffany Terrell. Lie down, pause, and rest.
Couches / rugs provided. Bring your own yoga mat.
Free. Space limited.
This program is full-to-capacity. Sign up for the waitlist. You will be contacted if a space opens.
WAITLIST
The event is an act of placemaking, and presents the RISD Museum as a space where students and public can come to rejuvenate and even heal themselves, placing art at the center of practices of coping, healing, and calming in a stressful world. – Namita Vijay Dharia, Associate Professor, RISD Department of History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences.
Shaffany Piaget Terrell is an Afro-Indigenous multidisciplinary artist and creator working at the intersections of performance, poetry, dance, music, and sound healing. Her practice is rooted in embodied inquiry, using performance to pose difficult questions around race, psychology, ancestry, and human potential. While society is often consumed with how people relate to one another socially, her work invites audiences to explore how they relate to themselves, to their pre-human origins, their inner landscapes, and their inherited stories.
Her performances seek to liberate the Black mind—and all minds—reclaim metaphysical space, and challenge inherited narratives that limit personal and collective expression. She uses art as a vessel for radical truth-telling, emotional depth, and ritual transformation. Each work becomes an invitation into discomfort, reflection, and alignment with a more expansive sense of self.
Shaffany is also an artist-facilitator for Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Trauma in Schools, combining art-making with mindfulness to help children deepen their understanding of self. She is certified by Deep Play for Kids and teaches yoga to children. Her work has been featured at Wilbury Theatre, WaterFire Arts Center, Rites and Reason Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, and the Paramount Theatre in Boston.