Pinta sa Kapiestahan is the 1st Dinagyang Mural Painting Competition in Iloilo City. This competition was opened to any interested group with a maximum of seven member who are between ages 16-60 years old. Below are the entries represented by seven districts of Iloilo City. District of La Villa Rica de Arevalo Team: PALLADIUM (District […]
Join More Power Photo Contest and Win P15,000
Join More Power Photo Contest and win P15,000. Energy drives the modern world and underpins every other issue. We depend on it for just about everything in our homes and businesses. In fact, we cannot perform most of our daily tasks without it. And while we know that people do appreciate its value, we would […]
Marites Olivares Eusoya: Enthusiastically Explores All Mediums
Marites Olivares Eusoya is a three-year post-kidney-transplant survivor, based in Oton town in Iloilo Province. She’s a 49-year-old mother of two boys, with the youngest diagnosed with slight autism syndrome. Marites Olivares Eusoya and Her Art Her art is quite complex because during her childhood, her interest was in fashion designing. She ventured into the […]
Joseph Benedicto: An Urban Gardener and Self-Taught Artist
Joseph Benedicto is a product label designer and consultant, an urban gardener and a self-taught artist. Joseph Benedicto and His Passion He has a strong passion for drawing and painting. His inspirations include the works of international watercolor masters Joseph Zbukvic and Alvaro Castagnet, our National Artist Juan Luna and local artist Mark Larida. From […]
Jancel Alvarez Boday: A Visual Artist and Muralist
Jancel Alvarez Boday is a visual artist and muralist from Roxas City in Capiz. Some of his murals are in schools, hotels and other establishments in his city. His city in second district of Capiz and in Iloilo. He has won on-the-spot painting and editorial-cartooning contests at the regional and national levels during his high […]
Dr. Melanie Jane Ausan-Tendencia: Believes in the Power of Art to Heal
Dr. Melanie Jane Ausan-Tendencia is an Infectious Disease Specialist who encounters microorganisms up close in patients and in the laboratories. She’s a member of the After Clinic Group (“ACG”) and was part of their landmark “Positive Ions” group exhibition. Sheused to paint with words only, but she was encouraged by the ACG doctor-artists to engage […]
Joseph Bilan: Deeply Inspired by God’s Creations
Joseph Bilan is a native Pan-ayanon, an indigenous cultural community in and around the town of Panay in the province of Capiz. He is midway through his tertiary studies, taking up a B.S. in Industrial Technology, Major in Architectural Drafting, at Capiz State University’s (“CAPSU”) Main Campus in Roxas City. Joseph Bilan and His Artistic […]
Jonas Mark Siva
Jonas Mark Siva says his art is basically a way for his audience to know or understand themselves and the world around them. “For me, art is an expression of the viewer’s own self,” says Siva, who is originally from the town of San Joaquin in southern Iloilo Province, but is now based in Oton […]
Vincent Bulahan
Vincent Bulahan hails from the town of Pontevedra in Capiz Province, but is currently based in Iloilo City, where he works for a bank. He is a graduate of Sancta Maria Mater Et Regina Seminarium, in Cagay, Roxas City, with a B.A. in Philosophy degree. “Drawing and painting were my hobbies even during my elementary […]
Norman Acedera
Norman Acedera is a native of New Lucena Town in south-central Iloilo Province. He considers himself a Modern Minimalist who loves to use mixed-media for his artworks. Acedera is known – among other artistic signifiers – for barehandedly engraving his signature on his stainless-steel works. He has won several local awards, especially for his furniture-making. […]