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Pottery (ceramics, clay, and folk clay sculpture) has been part of Filipino culture for about 3,500 years. [169] Notable artifacts include the Manunggul Jar (890–710 BCE) [170] and Maitum anthropomorphic pottery (5 BC-225 AD). [171] High-fired pottery was first made around 1,000 years ago, leading to a ceramic age in the Philippines. [135]
Rey Mudjahid Ponce Millan (born 8 July 1974), better known as Kublai Millan or Kublai, is a Filipino painter, sculptor, curator, and cultural mover from Mindanao.He is known for his monumental sculptures, his colorful paintings, and his culture and arts community engagements.
Imelda Cajipe-Endaya (born 16 September 1949) is a Filipino visual artist, curator, author, activist, and community leader. She is known for her printmaking, painting, mixed-media art, and installation art.
Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula (June 29, 1929 – August 4, 1999) was a Filipino choreographer, theater director, teacher, author and researcher on ethnic dance. She was the founding director of the Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company and was named National Artist of the Philippines for dance in 1988. [1] [2] [3]
Rey Paz Contreras was born in Parañaque, south of Manila, and grew up in a house by the railway tracks in the crowded urban district of Tayuman.When the railway company decided to replace the old wooden railroad sleepers, some of them 100 years old and severely damaged, Contreras bought the wood and began using it to create wooden objects.
With many forms of expression dancing is another outlet to express how Filipino American people feel. Filipino Americans started using dance as a form of letting loose as early as the 1920s. Filipino Americans started going to taxi dance halls where Filipino men were allowed to showcase their dancing abilities as well as socialize with women.
Yaw-Yan, also called Sayaw ng Kamatayan (English: Dance of Death), [1] is a Filipino martial art developed by Napoleon A. Fernandez and based on older Filipino martial arts. [2] Since its inception in the 1970s, it has dominated the kickboxing scene in the Philippines and has proven very effective against other stand-up fighting arts [citation ...
Matthew Benjamin Perez Lopez (born 1 March 1993) more popularly known as Matthew Lopez is a Filipino art researcher, independent curator, art advisor, and author. He is best known for his various writings on Philippine art and culture that have been published in various publications including the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art.