TAA: The oldest government award for visual arts Now on its 18th year of conferment, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) 13 Artists Award is the oldest government recognition for visual artists. Earlier today, the first ever Thirteen Artists Awards (TAA) online press conference was held to...
It seems that more and more stars are finding their way to Crown Artist Management, actress Maja Salvador’s talent management company. Just recently, Crown Artist took to social media to post a video of actress Jasmine Curtis-Smith using the hashtag #JASanotherqueen. View this post on Instagram...
Now reborn, the artist collective embraces individuality while practicing unity The COVID-19 pandemic is an unlikely time, but it is an opportune time for Baysulangpu Artists Society to stage a comeback in the Iloilo art scene with its first formal art exhibition in more than a dozen years. In...
Tucked between a grocery store and a pizza chain in Jaro district of Iloilo City is an architectural showroom that has become another haven for local Ilonggo artists. ‘Bùtlak’ artists A.R Sculptura Space, the architectural showroom of husband and wife Joseph Carl Albert and Margarette...
For this year’s National Arts Month celebration, Ilonggo artists have collaborated in creating a mural that speaks of realizations since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out early in 2020. In the “We Hide No More” exhibition at SM City Iloilo, Himbon Contemporary Ilonggo Artists group unveiled the...
The Tenement Visual Artist (TVA), the group that honored the NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Giana “Gigi” through a mural on the Tenement basketball court in Taguig City after their tragic death in 2020, created another large painting on the same court to commemorate their first year...
The WNBA honors Kobe Bryant during the game between the Atlanta Dream and the on August 23, 2020 at Feld Entertainment Center in Palmetto, Florida. (Stephen Gosling / NBAE via Getty Images / AFP) On Kobe Bryant's death anniversary, a group of artists unveiled a new mural at the Tenement in Taguig...
Tenement photo from Tenement Visual Artists’ Facebook page The Tenement Visual Artists (TVA), the group behind the new mural of late NBA legend Kobe Bryant, has issued guidelines Monday night for the public viewing at the Tenement in Taguig City. The TVA paid homage to Bryant and daughter Gianna...
Bring happiness to your loved ones while helping our local artisans bounce back Time flies. We’re now about to wrap up 2020. So many things have happened this year, but nothing will stopus Filipinos, not even some of the non-believers,from celebrating perhaps the most important occasion of the...
PAST RECIPIENTS Lino Brocka for film in 1997, Fernando Amorsolo for visual arts-painting in 1972, and Nick JoaquÃn for literature in 1976 Good news! The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) have opened the nomination for the Orden...
These days, face masks are lifelines during the Covid-19 pandemic. And there’s no better way for artists from all over Panay Island, particularly Iloilo, to honor them than by making creative interpretations of rather lifeless objects that have become a significant part of our daily lives under...
Welcome Paradise Rising, coming July 31 It is near impossible to accurately describe what 88rising is. It is not just a music collective, not just a management team, not just a marketing company. Founded by Sean Miyashiro in the US, the collective has successfully helped emerging...