Following her initial dramatic reading of Nancy Elizabeth Prophet’s Paris Diary at RISD Museum in 2014 and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2015, Sylvia Ann Soares created and performed sixteen versions of solos in her Defiance! series on Prophet. In Defiance! Art and Life, Soares again visits primary sources to re-explore aspects and chapters of Prophet’s life. Here, months before her passing, a wiser, yet impassioned Prophet emotionally recalls struggles and successes of her career and choices. Throughout her fiscal, physical and artistic challenges, Prophet defiantly pursued her drive to sculpt. Likewise, Prophet’s affiliation with W.E.B. DuBois, teaching at Spelman College, recipient of racial misrepresentation, and her poetry and essay on “Art and Life” invoked Soares’ conceivable choices Prophet expounds on her philosophy of art and life. Sylvia Ann Soares, 82. CCRI, Brown ’95. A member of Trinity Rep in 1962. She is AEA and SAG-AFTRA. An actor, director, writer, historian, activist, she has performed overseas, in NY, in regional theatres, on national tours, in LA TV series and locally. Her characters include ‘Silvy Tory’ enslaved woman of RI, and Cape Verdean ‘Nha Silbanha.’ Sylvia Ann is a veteran of Rites and Reason Theatre. Her work is fueled with the sanctity of justice, humanity and nature. For more info, visit: https://risdmuseum.org/exhibitions-events/events/defiance-art-and-life Free. Registration for this in-person program is requested. Sylvia Ann Soares is a member of Providence Village!