Your Ultimate Guide to the Best of Iloilo
Kirby Guirhem Majaque, from the riverside barangay of Tabuc Suba in Lapaz District in Iloilo City, is a product of the nearby Western Institute of Technology. His father, Nubbin, is a tricycle-pedicab driver and his mother, Anita Guirhem, helps support the family (which includes sister Shann Beyin) as a housewife. Majaque, 21 years old, was […]
P.G. Zoluaga is an Ilonggo visual artist, songwriter and musician, and one of the stalwarts of the Iloilo arts community. He is with the Hubon Ilonggo Artist Collective and a former member of the Executive Committee on Visual Arts of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Zoluaga has exhibited his works here and […]
Cezar L. Arro is one of the pillars of the Iloilo art scene who has now established a truly national niche with a growing circle of dedicated collectors. His distinctive style encompasses Expressionism, Modern and Contemporary. He has been practicing visual arts for the past 21 years and has regularly been featured in local, national, […]
Dr. Emmylou Jane Baylosis-Valencia, from Barotac Nuevo Town along the central-eastern coast of Iloilo Province, is a practicing Internist/Adult Neurologist. She is married, mother to a three-year-old son and a proud breastfeeding advocate. “I did not have formal lessons in art,” she says. “I just draw whenever intense emotions are looming in. I was inspired […]
Lenny Areno is a 23-year-old fresh college graduate from President Roxas Town in Capiz Province. Although she took a Business Administration with a Major in Finance course at the Capiz State University campus in Bailan, Pontevedra, Areno’s heart is really in the arts. One of her major influences was her uncle who was a muralist […]
Art and Architecture are two of Winston Magampo’s great passions in life. The 22-year-old self-taught visual artist from Molo District in Iloilo City is a graduate of B.S. in Architecture from the Iloilo Science and Technology University. Magampo remembers he started to develop his drawing and painting skills as a freshman. His love for art-making […]
To those who closely follow the Iloilo art scene, Larry Casinao does not need any introduction. In June 2019, he famously popped up on Philippine national media with his touching story of a struggling artist hawking his artworks at one of the public plazas in Iloilo City to raise money to finance his wife’s long-term […]
The celebration continues this 2021 as Streetfood Night Market: Drive Thru officially joins the Dinagyang 2021 celebration! Support your favorite local food businesses this coming January 22 – 24, 2020 from 11:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. at City Time Square – Iloilo. You can show your support by dropping by, driving through, or get it […]
John Ekoh O. Medina is a Grade10 Special Program in the Arts student from Oton Town, just outside Iloilo City. “This is my first time doing a realistic painting,” he says, citing his artist-father and his school specialization as the main impetus behind his drawing skills. “I made this artwork because the community quarantine due […]
William Fusin is a licensed Architect based in Miag-ao Town in southern Iloilo Province. “Since I am engaged in a profession bounded by rules, I take my breather through road trips with my motorbike, doing outdoor sketches, and on-site paintings,” he says. “These activities free me from the hustle and bustle of my daily work […]
