Advance copy The Capiz Times IPs Visual Art Exhibit Charl Boie Provincial Capitol, Roxas City—As a significant way of celebrating the National Indigenous Peoples Month, the 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Visual Art Exhibit was recently held at the Hall of Governor’s in this city. It was participated in by 28 artists who displayed 97 artworks, from the indigenous communities of Western Visayas. Artworks--mostly consisting of paintings, traditional handicrafts and a few native-inspired garments—were classified into traditional, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, and youth crafts that celebrate the cultural treasures and sensibilities of the atis and/or taga-bukid of Capiz, Guimaras and Iloilo provinces. The Panay-Bukidnon of Capiz province showcased 27 art works or products such as paintings, bracelets, hats and bags. The exhibit was championed by the Kalinawa Art Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to bringing the finest Indigenous People’s (IP) Art of the Philippines to global communities. The Kalinawa Art Foundation was established in February 2006 by Canadian couple David and Margarita Guilinsky, both entrepreneurs, who envisioned the promotion and development of IPs’ arts, particularly visual and fine arts, as social enterprise inspirited by an investment-driven rather donation-based cultural platform or undertakings. It facilitates socio-cultural investments in people’s folk knowledge and craftsmanship, as well as engenders access to facilities, native materials and other support systems, in the hope of promoting indigenous talents or artistry. Exhibits like the just concluded 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Visual Art Exhibit sustains the gateway to deeper awareness of the people’s not-too-distant past, and thus the representation of Western Visayas’ heritage, progress, ideology, identity as a group of people and their ethnic communities. The 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Visual Art Exhibit was event-managed by Raquel D. Palma Gil, Executive Director of the Kalinawa Foundation. Madam Raquel Palma Gil, in a brief interview, sees the need for sustaining IPs visual arts exhibit and expects that local governments within a span of five-year period would be able to manage such kind of exhibit as a celebration of culture and life itself. She said the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) had been requested to help in marketing the IP’s visual arts pieces and products. Local governments, she opined, must also create the environment and other platforms in which the Indigenous Peoples’ visual arts and/or products can find their way in mainstream societies, in global markets and cultural expositions.
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