MANILA, Philippines - Liongoren Gallery, in partnership with Tawir Heritage Foundation Inc. of Pangasinan, conducted an eight-day sculpture workshop in clay and fiberglass lrecently at Liongoren Gallery, Crisologo Compound,Tapuac Dist., Dagupan City.
Resource persons were Bacolod artists Israel Gonzales and Herson Sarona, and 2011 Metrobank Art and Design Excellence Sculpture Competition grand prize Awardee Jun Vicaldo. Participants to the workshop were local visual artists, art educators from Pangasinan State University, Señor Tesoro Academy, Pangasinan National High School and Pangasinan Provincial Solid Waste Management Office.
The workshop covered techniques and uses of clay and fiberglass in arts and crafts using locally sourced material. Clay was secured from barangay Quintong, San Carlos City, a traditional pottery village. Baidy Mendoza, the pioneering clay artist from Labrador, Pangasinan, gave an inspirational talk at the start of the program. Workshop director was Pangasinan sculptor and poet Paco Santos.
A visual narrative of the twin workshop, the output of the participants and trainors, works of guest artists Julie Lluch and Baidy Mendoza, paintings of workshop participants Jojit Solano, Patrick Fernandez and Boni de Guzman, are on view at Liongoren Gallery, TeoTinay Bldg., Crisologo Compound, 301 Tapuac Dist., Dagupan City.
“And then I smiled,” a solo show of UP College of Fine Arts professor Yasmin Almonte, is on extended run until June 15 also at Liongoren.
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