THE FILIPINA ARTIST CCP Centennial Honors for culture and the

the arts in 1999 arts

PHILIPPINE ART GALLERY - Her nationalistic
- first official meeting themes are taken LIGAYA FERNANDO
place of artists from Philippine AMILBANGSA
- Anita Magsaysay-Ho – folklore, legends, - noteworthy Filipina
FOUNDER and mythology - model of historical
- Relates them to recorder and
PURITA KALAW LEDESMA contemporary life conservationist
- The founder of the - Her arts are mostly - artist, educator,
Art Association of in pen, ink and cultural researcher,
the Philippines acrylic and advocate of
indigenous arts of the
 Women artists IMELDA CAJIPE- south
become visible ENDAYA - Promote Southern
because of the - Mixed media artist, arts
initial steps of curator, writer and - Earned her Ramon
three women organizer Magsaysay Award that
graphic artists in - One of the first to is equivalent to Nobel
the 1970 and 1980 use nontraditional Peace Prize
- Imelda Cajipe – materials for her
Endaya, Brenda V. artworks PANGALAY
Fajardo, Ofelia - Fragmented - Gift-offering
Gelvezon – Tequi arrangements of - Temple of dance
- They started as artistic scenes - Among the Samal,
printmakers but - Active women’s Badjao, Jama
later evolved their right advocate Mapun, Tausuug
own genres except
for France based – LATE 1980’s
Gelvezon Tequi - Fajardo and Endaya
who remained a together with Ana Fer,
printmaker and Julie Lluch, Ida
painter Bugayong founded
KASIBULAN
BRENDA FAJARDO (KABABAIHAN SA
- Doctor in SINING AT BAGONG
Philippines Studies SIBOL NA
and Professor KAMALAYAN)
Emerita in UP – in which a group
multi awarded whose goal was to
artist pursue women’s
AWARDS: 2012 Gawad agenda
CCP para sa sining Biswal, - Addresses
women’s issues in