2nd Dumaguete Open Biennial Terra Cotta Art Festival Exhibit & Competition

The 2nd Dumaguete Open Biennial Terra Cotta
Art Festival Exhibit and Competition

Negros Island possesses large clay deposits traditionally used for the manufacture and sale of utilitarian terra cotta pots and implements, and more recently as a medium for local visual artists.

It is in this context that the First Open Dumaguete Biennial Terra Cotta Art Festival Exhibit and Competition in 2005 was organized and it is in this same vein that the 2nd Open Dumaguete Biennial Terracotta Art Festival Exhibit and Competition 2007 will take off; to consider both the livelihood potential of such a resource, and the importance of this traditional medium as used by artists who seek to find contemporaneity through the natural potential of this medium.

EVENTS+PUBLIC PROGRAMS JULY 8-12

July 8

8:30-11AM Opening Program

Ceremony at Quezon Park, Dumaguete City

2:00-3:30 PM Exhibition/Competition

Foyer Gallery, Luce Auditorium, Silliman University

Opening and Judging of terracotta sculpture competition

Awarding of three PHP50, 000 prizes. Judged by Dr. Skeffington Thomas, Napoleon Abueva, Joyce Fan, Prof. May Datuin, Ph.D., Julie Lluch

4:00-5:30PM Exhibition

Mariyah Gallery, Larena Drive, Bogo Junction

Exhibition Opening: Hinugot sa Yutang Pula (From the Red Earth)

Sculptures and Installations by Danilo Sollesta, Kitty Taniguchi, Mark Valenzuela, Jo Geraldo, Rene de Guzman, Entang Wiharso, Andita Purnama Sari Adita (Indonesia), Dionisio Cimarreli (Italy), Meri Pejoska (Macedonia), Peter Bevan (UK)

July 9

8:00-8:30AM

Registration for Toushin Maruyama Workshop on Pottery,

sponsored by the Japan Foundation

Luce Foyer, Silliman University

8:30-9:30 AM Exhibition

Opening Ceremony and viewing of Japan Foundation Pottery Exhibition on the First Floor of the Silliman University Library

9:30-12:00AM Workshop

Toushin Maruyama Workshop on Pottery. Luce Auditorium Foyer (for artists, university students, teachers, pottery enthusiasts)

2:00-3:00Exhibition

Opening Ceremony “Japanese Pottery-The rising Generation from traditional Japanese Kilns” A Project by Japan Foundation, Manila

The Dumaguete City Press Club, Rizal Blvd, Dumaguete City (for High School and Elementary students as well as underprivileged youth)

July 10

8:00-9:30AM video screening and opening of videos and photographs documenting a potter’s life (from the compilation of Danilo Sollesta and John Stevenson) at Foundation University

9:30-10:30AM Artist Talk (Foundation University, Main Campus)

Dennis Ascalon, Filipino Multimedia artist

10:30-11:30AM Artist Talk (Foundation University, Main Campus)

Estrella “Tala” Contreras, artist and curator/manager, Contreras Sculpture Gallery

1:30-2:30PM Lecture /Forum (Foundation University, Main Campus)

Flaudette May Datuin, Ph. D. Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines

2:30-3:30PM Lecture Forum (Foundation University, Main Campus)

Skeffington Thomas, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Rowan University, USA

President, National Council for Education of the Ceramic Art, USA

3:30-4:30PM Artist Talk /Video Screening (Foundation University, Main Campus)

Julie Lluch, celebrated Filipina Terracotta Sculptor

4:35-6:00PM Exhibition (Foundation University, Main Campus)

Opening of painting and multimedia exhibition curated by Riel Hilario, artist/curator

July 11

8:30-9:30AM Artist Talk(MPR /AVT 1 Silliman University)

Dionisio Cimarreli, Sculptor (Italy)

Art Supervisor, Sheshan Luxury Villas Project, Shanghai, China

9:30-11:30AM Artist Talk(MPR /AVT 1 Silliman University)

Meri Anicin Pejoska, Sculptor and Architech (Republic of Macedonia)

General Manager of the National Museums of Archeology, Ethnology and History of the Republic of Macedonia.

1:30-2:30AM Lecture/Forum(MPR /AVT 1 Silliman University)

Sid Gomez Hildawa, Cultural Center of the Philippines

Department Manager on Visual, Literary and Media Arts

2:30-3:30PM Lecture/Forum(MPR /AVT 1 Silliman University)

Joyce Fan, Curator, Singapore Art Museum

3:30-5:30PM

Negros Potters Communities Competition/Tradefair by the Dumaguete City Council on Arts and Culture (Dumaguete Press Club Bldg., Rizal Boulevard)

July 12

Tours: Selected sites in Dumaguete City, Siquijor and Tanjay

July 7 Pre Biennial Exhibition <<<

“Kuyug” organized by the artists of Dumaguete City and other artists of Negros Island, coordinated by Susan Canoy, VIVA-EXCON coordinator for Negros Oriental. Opening is July7 at 5PM Coco-Amigo Bar and Restaurant, Rizal Boulevard

MORE INFORMATION

Kitty Taniguchi (035)2251687/09213400686
dumaguete_terracotta@yahoo.com/
dumaguete_terracotta@yahoogroups.com

This has been realized through the efforts of
The Dumaguete City Government thru the Dumaguete Council on Culture and the Arts
Mariyah Gallery

In cooperation with:
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts
The Provincial Government of Negros Oriental
Foundation University
Silliman University
Japan Foundation
Department of Science and Technology, Dumaguete
Universal Robina Corporation

With the support of
IFPC-UNESCO