The Asian Cultural Council (ACC), a grant-making body, celebrates its 55th anniversary with a show of portraits by a top visual artist in support of the eight grant recipients for 2018.
This was announced at a recent press conference at Milky Way Café in Makati City, which was highlighted by a dance performance by EA Terrado, a former grantee.
The exhibit by Andres Barrioquinto, which features 18 portraits of men and women prominent in their field, is ongoing at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Manila.
Many of the ACC fellows have gone on to become well-known and multiawarded in their respective fields, including National Artists Jose Joya, Ramon P. Santos and Alice Reyes; Myra Beltran (dance); Delphine Buencamino (theater); Patrick Flores (museum studies); and Gino Gonzales (theater design).
The eight recipients for 2018 are Marika Constantino (visual artist, curator, program director); Joselina Cruz (museum curator); Zeny May Recidoro (art writer, curator); Madge Reyes (dance artist, filmmaker); Elena Comendador & Elizabeth Roxas (interdisciplinary artists, choreographers, educators); Grace Nono (music performing artist, ethno-musicologist-scholar); and JK Anicoche (theater actor-director & performance curator), the only thorn among the roses.
Constantino will research on existing art schools in the United States. Cruz will study successful Filipino-American artists and other migrant artists. Recidoro will pursue a masters in fine arts (major in art writing) in New York. Reyes will undertake an interdisciplinary study on the art of screen dance in New York.
Comendador and Roxas, both New York-based, will collaborate on a workshop for pre-professional and professional dancers in Manila. Nono, a noted folk singer and holder of a Ph.D on ethnomusicology from New York University, will continue her 2nd-year studies at Yale Divinity School. Anicoche will undertake a study on theater for civic engagement and education.
After finishing their researches, “all will come back and contribute to our nation,” emcee Eyna Villar said. –CONTRIBUTED
