Lopez Museum and Library

Zero In Open Call Festival: Radio Interview on "Magandang Mornings" with Julius Babao, Nina Marasigan, Eileen Legaspi Ramirez, and Claro Ramirez

2011-09-23T20:58:00.001+08:00

Zero In Open Call Festival @ Shop Talk Interview with Ria Tanjuatco-Trillo, Claro Ramirez, Nina Lim-Yuson, and Yael Buencamino

2011-09-23T20:57:00.000+08:00

September 23-24 Activities for Zero In's Open Call Art Festival at SM Mall of Asia

2011-09-22T11:47:00.002+08:00

Don’t miss Zero In’s Open Call Art Festival at SM MOA main entrance atrium. There are live performances scheduled on Sept 23 and 24. Bring your family and children to enjoy the live performances this Sept 23 and 24. Also special treat to all teachers on “National Teacher’s Month”. Visit all five museums for free- just show your identification card. Please pass info to your friends and colleagues.

On its tenth anniversary, Zero In is breaking barriers by literally bringing art closer to the public through a mall exhibit, and showing art in its different forms: cuisine (Ateneo Art Gallery), manga and cosplay (Ayala Museum), visual arts (Bahay Tsinoy), sound (Lopez Museum), and dance (Museo Pambata). The event dubbed “Open Call Art Festival” is at the SM Mall main entrance atrium until September 24, 2011 and is open to the public, free-of-charge.

Zero in is the annual collaboration project of five private museums - Ateneo Art Gallery, Ayala Museum, Bahay Tsinoy, Lopez Museum and Museo Pambata. Each year the consortium works together, shares resources, and holds a multi-museum exhibition to reach out to a greater audience and promote a better understanding and appreciation of art and our rich cultural heritage.

Schedule of performances on September 23 and 24 at the Mall of Asia:

Sept 23 from 1 to 3 pm - On-the-Spot Character Drawing Contest for kids 5-12 years old

Sept 24

1pm - Sound art performance by E.X.I.S.T (Experimentation in Sound Art Tradition) Gentle Universe, Caliph8, Mannet Villariba, Elemento and Toshiyuki Seido

2pm - Piano performance by Carell Belandres of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “ Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman” from Ninomiya Tomoko’s Nodame Cantabile, a manga about a gifted pianist.

3pm - Sound art performance by E.X.I.S.T (Experimentation in Sound Art Tradition) Gentle Universe, Caliph8, Mannet Villariba, Elemento & Toshiyuki Seido

6pm – Dance by Gumboot group of Museo Pambata Child Advocates with Nyko Maca

Also check out onsite exhibitions running in parallel to SM MOA’s Open Call:

Ateneo Art Gallery (September 15-December 22, 2011), an interactive food themed-game called Crafty Critters Munch Up that takes off from the permanent collection

Ayala Museum (August 16-October 2, 2011), the world of manga in Manga Realities: Exploring the Art of Japanese Comics Today

Bahay Tsinoy (September 23-October 23, 2011), an installation by Con Cabrera called Kasama

Lopez Museum (September 12, 2011-April 3, 2012), performances and sound/media art installations in Reverb

Museo Pambata (September 6-October 6, 2011), performances alongside an exhibition of National Artist for Dance Ramon Obusan's memorabilia entitled Sayaw

Open Call is just one of many projects lined up by the Zero In consortium to make art more engaging and relevant. It will also spearhead art workshops and talks to bolster art education and will participate in the Department of Education’s National Teachers’ Month Campaign. This month, all teachers may visit each museum free of charge. For more info, visit http://www.zeroinmuseums.org/ or call Fanny at 631-2417.

REVERB answers the question, what does a museum sound like?

2011-09-12T02:07:00.000+08:00

REVERB @ Lopez Museum opens on September 12, 2011 and runs until April 3, 2012

Apart from the gustatory and olfactory, the aural sense is possibly the least serviced among all the human sensory channels through which we experience what gets shown in museums and other spaces tending to human sensation. And so it was in keeping with the idea of venturing forth into mostly untrodden paths that Lopez Museum presents Reverb, a group exhibition on sound and the broad auditory spectrum as it opens to the public September 12, 2011. Reverb is the museum’s onsite offering for the Zero In museum consortium’s Open Call Festival which runs from September 15-24, 2011 at the SM Mall of Asia Atrium.

Reverb takes off from notions having to do with resonance, registration, and audible impressions. It brings together sound-based work from artists such as Eric Agoncillo Ambata, Kawayan de Guia, Tad Ermitaño, IC Jaucian, Diokno Pasilan, Ronald Tomas, the collaborative, E.X.I.S.T. (Experimentation in Sound Art Tradition), and UP College of Music ethnomusicologist Dr. Christine Muyco. In responding to Lopez Museum’s open call for sound-based proposals last year, these artists will be showing an amalgam of old and new works drawn up from the ambient and self-produced, the installative and site-specific, the found and the overlooked, alongside objects from the museum collection that invoke hearing and an overall sharpening of the experiential aspect of encountering art.

Reverb’s off-site component at the SM MOA Atrium will encourage mallers to physically engage with everyday objects such as air mattresses, and surrounding foliage. Live performances from these invited artists will make up both Reverb’s onsite and off-site complements which are also intended to emphasize the temporal and intangible nature of sound art.

The Lopez Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City.Museum days and hours are Mondays-Saturdays, 8am-5pm,except holidays. You may reach the museum through telephone Numbers: 6312417/6359545.

More information may be seen on

http://twitter.com/lopez_muse

http://lopeziana.tumblr.com

http://facebook.com/lopez.museum.library

Zero In X 2011: You are cordially invited!

2011-09-09T01:16:00.000+08:00

You are cordially invited to the Opening of Zero In Open Call Art Festival on September 15, 2011 at 6pm, SM Mall of Asia, Atrium

Talking Shop: Roberto Chabet on Aug 17 @ Lopez Museum

2011-08-15T16:38:00.007+08:00

Talking Shop: Roberto Chabet on Aug 17 @ Lopez Museum

In conjunction with the series of exhibitions on and of Roberto Chabet here and abroad, art writer and editor Carina Evangelista will discuss on August 17 (Wednesday) 3pm at the Lopez Museum, how Chabet employs the random, the haphazard and the accidental in order to deploy codified visual indices of meaning.

A leading figure in Philippine contemporary art, key conceptual artist Chabet has been producing avant-garde works since the 1960's which foreground idea over form. Also a curator, he has organized many exhibitions of contemporary art, mostly by artists who were his students at the University of The Philippines College of Fine Arts, where he taught for more than thirty years. Chabet has created and continues to create collages, constructions and deconstructions. In his works, he uses everyday objects in compositions that play on form and meaning.

Together with this talk is a panel discussion among former members of Shop 6, a loose organization of artists whose vanguard shows in the 70s were distinct for the predominant use of organic and industrial everyday objects. Discussants include photographer/cinematographer Nap Jamir, abstractionist Red Mansueto, installation artist turned craftswoman Yola Perez Johnson, and peformance-installation artist Alan Rivera; Lopez Memorial Museum Curator Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez will moderate this panel in cooperation with King Kong Art Projects Unlimited.

Lecture Fee is P120 for non-students and P100 for students. For more information, call Lopez Museum at 6312417, seats limited. ###

ABOUT CARINA EVANGELISTA

Carina Evangelista is an art professional with 20 years of experience as an art writer, editor, and curator both in the United States and in the Philippines. She is currently the Editor for the Chuck Close Catalogue Raisonné at Artifex Press in New York.

Born and educated in the Philippines, her career in the arts started with a year as Assistant Curator and Gallery Manager for Galleria Duemila in Manila, which was followed with stints in various nonprofit art organizations in New York such as Creative Time, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's, Sculpture Center, the Ise Art Foundation, and the American Museum of the Moving Image. Having held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art, she has worked on more than 50 exhibitions of contemporary art and numerous publications.

A grant from the Asian Cultural Council allowed her to survey the contemporary art in Manila, Baguio, Negros, Iloilo, and Dumaguete in 2004 and 2005. She has subsequently been a regular writer on exhibitions held at alternative spaces, galleries, and museums in Manila. She was a contributing writer for Dime a Dozen, organized by Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez at the Lopez Memorial Museum in 2007, and to the exhibition catalog for Bastards of Misrepresentation, a group exhibition featuring works by Philippine contemporary artists organized by Manuel Ocampo for the Freies Museum in Berlin in 2010.

This year, she began research on Roberto Chabet to prepare for her contribution to the planned monograph on the artist. She has written essays for two of Chabet’s exhibitions in the Chabet 50 series: Intermediate Geography held at Osage Art Foundation in Hong Kong and sitting standing lying walking at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts.

‘Pinoy Portrayal’ on August 6, 2011

2011-08-04T11:46:00.003+08:00

Critic and semiotician Dr. Oscar Campomanes and political cartoonist Jose Santos Ardivilla will discuss on August 6 (Saturday), from 2 to 4 pm, what has passed through in the representations of Filipinos during the American colonial period. Lecture fee is P120.

Dr. Campomanes’ talk will focus on the graphic and photographic images of Filipino subjects from Bilibid Prison produced by American physical anthropologist and colonial proconsul Daniel Folkmar. Dr. Campomanes teaches Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at Ateneo de Manila University; and Semiotics, Media Criticism, and Culture Theory at the UST Graduate School. He holds a MA and PhD in American civilization from Brown University.

Meanwhile, the image of Juan de la Cruz and, occasionally Inang Bayan, as they appeared in works of Pinoy cartoonists of Lipang Kalabaw will be the subject of Ardivilla’s talk. Ardivilla graduated cum laude from the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines in Diliman in 1999. He has lectured on political cartooning and mass-produced art during the American Colonial Period in the Philippines and on the cultural value of political cartoons and Filipino komiks. He has represented the Philippines in the Nihon Shimbon Kyokai and Confederation of ASEAN Journalists, and in the Witty World Conference. Apart from exhibitions and articles for publications He currently teaches at the UP Manila and is the Filipino desk editor of WittyWorld.com.

The lecture complements the current exhibit “About Face” which explores the idea that the face represents the persona with which one confronts the world and how penetrable these public facades can be. The exhibit features works by contemporary artists xVRx, Renan Ortiz, Louie Talents and Alvin Zafra which used and incorporated portraits from the museum’s collection and library archives and the most treasured Rizaliana –in light of the 150th birth commemoration of Dr. Jose Rizal.

July 22, 2011: The Information Literacy and Inquiry: A Seminar for Public School Teacher-Librarians

2011-07-19T04:53:00.002+08:00

On July 22, 2011 The Information Literacy and Inquiry: A Seminar for Public School Teacher-Librarians will be held, a joint undertaking by Ortigas Foundation, Inc. & Lopez Museum, in cooperation with Knowledge Channel and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

The Lopez Memorial Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner

Meralco Avenue, Pasig. Museum days and hours are Mondays-Saturdays, except holidays, 8am-5pm. For more information, please call 6312417/6359545 or email admin@lopez-museum.org.

Artists in Conversation on July 16

2011-07-15T07:37:00.001+08:00

The featured artists in About Face will discuss their processes and inspirations in Artists in Conversation at the museum on July 16, 2 p.m.-4 p.m.

Vermont Coronel, Renan Ortiz, Louie Talents and Alvin Zafra lent their old works and worked on new ones as well to create nontraditional portraitures with the use of new and unconventional media. Their works present images that ask the viewers to reexamine their idea of portraiture in light of today’s celebrity culture, identity theft, and avatars, among others.

On July 22, the museum will also conduct the Information Literacy and Inquiry seminar for public school teacher-librarians. For inquiries, call Fanny at 631-2417. Lopez Memorial Museum and Library is located at the ground floor of Benpres Building.

'About Face’ exhibit plays on Rizal, opens on June 2 and will run until August 27, 2011

2011-05-30T04:30:00.006+08:00

Exploring the idea that the face represents the persona with which one confronts the world and how penetrable these public facades can be, Lopez MemorialMuseum presents About Face. The exhibit features works by contemporary artists xVRx, Renan Ortiz, Louie Talents and Alvin Zafra.

These include works by Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Macario Vitalis, Fabian de la Rosa, Vicente Manansala, Juvenal Sanso, Fernando Amorsolo, Benedicto Cabrera, Fernando Zobel and the extensive Rizaliana holdings in light of the 150th birth commemoration of Dr. Jose Rizal.

As the museum has established a reputation for being a repository of Lunas and Hidalgos and rare Filipiniana, museum curatorial consultant Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez said that the artists were asked to “consider images within the museum and library archive collections in taking on the proposed theme.” She added “The intention is to have contemporary artists look upon the practice of pictorially rendering personage as a means of circulating a persona or a public face, as opposed to a repressed alter ego or possibly a totally fictitious avatar.”

The featured artists used and incorporated portraits including the less explored aspects of the collection such as its Rizaliana holdings and its LVN still archives, among others.

Zafra who has exhibited his work in various galleries in the Philippines as well as in Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore and Hong Kong, did a portrait of President Emilio Aguinaldo that he found in the book "I Shot the Presidents” by Honesto Vitug. He said that “I use my fingernails as drawing medium on fine sandpaper. .. It's blank. You only see his upper garment and some elements of the background where the photo was taken. I think of it as a reaction to my own art practice as well.”

Ortiz , who was awarded the Sinugdanan Grant by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in 2007, takes on Rizal and Indio-Spanish dialectics in three multimedia installations cutting across the museum’s galleries.

Talents who was awarded a scholarship grant from the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux- Arts and the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts Best Thesis Award, also mounted a multimedia work exploring notions of itinerancy and registration of self in relation to sacred verse and texts by Rizal. He called his installation ‘Playing with Matchsticks’. He said: “The burning as part of my process resonates since my method combines a technical meditative approach and a childhood penchant for burning as a device to decorate the edges of cards.”

xVRx who has participated in arts festivals and residency programs such as Outlooke Pointe Foundation and AX (is) Art Project Baguio City, shows a stenciled portrait of an old man, dually alluding to images of everyday life repurposed and sited surreptitiously in luminal urban space.

About Face opens on June 2 and will run until August 27, 2011. For more info, visit www.lopez-museum.org or call 631-2417.

On May 7 Help Design Taka Toys for the Benefit of Knowledge Channel's School Kids Projects with Pilipinas Street Plan

2011-05-02T07:19:00.002+08:00

The Lopez Memorial Museum has teamed up once again with Pilipinas Street Plan, Knowledge Channel and Boysen Paints for Gawa/Laro: Toymaking Workshop Part 2 to be held on May 7, 9am-12noon. Open to kids ages 6-above, the workshop will have them paint a taka, a traditional art form of Paete, Laguna, to create a toy. Another method of creating a toy would be by means of assembly; participants will create a toy by putting together a variety of materials. The toymaking activity provides young participants with the opportunity to know and work with a traditional artform, and to recycle materials. This would also allow them to help other children as one of the toys they made will be sold. Proceeds of sales will go to Knowledge Channel for its programs for schoolchildren in the country.

Paints, brushes and taka will be provided for which a minimal fee of Php1,000.00 would be required, but participants have to bring the materials they wish to assemble to create a toy. To register, visit or call the museum.

The Lopez Memorial Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig. Museum days and hours are Mondays-Saturdays, except holidays, 8am-5pm. For more information, please call 6312417/6359545 or email admin@lopez-museum.org.

2011-04-16T14:23:00.004+08:00

Media & the Rights of a Child Forum ongoing watch online with RockEd!

Live TV : Ustream

Gawa/Laro: Toymaking Workshop with Pilipinas Street Plan (PSP) Part 2 on April 16, 9am-12noon

2011-04-14T09:09:00.006+08:00

INFO UPDATE 15 April: The Toymaking Workshop is moved to 7 May 2011. Please be guided accordingly. For more info: please call 6312417/6359545 or email admin@lopez-museum.org.

The Lopez Memorial Museum has teamed up once again with Pilipinas Street Plan, Knowledge Channel and Boysen Paints for Gawa/Laro: Toymaking Workshop Part 2 to be held on April 16, 9am-12noon. Open to kids ages 6-above, the workshop will have them paint a taka, a traditional art form of Paete, Laguna, to create a toy. Another method of creating a toy would be by means of assembly; participants will create a toy by putting together a variety of materials. The toymaking activity provides young participants with the opportunity to know and work with a traditional artform, and to recycle materials. This would also allow them to help other children as one of the toys they made will be sold. Proceeds of sales will go to Knowledge Channel for its programs for schoolchildren in the country.

The Museum is closed on April 9 for the 69th commemoration of Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor)

2011-04-08T15:30:00.007+08:00

[Image/Creative Commons]

In 1987, the late president Corazon Aquino, the mother of the current President Benigno Aquino III, issued Executive Order 23, declaring April 9 of every year a regular holiday for the observance of Araw ng Kagitingan.

In 1989, she issued Proclamation 466 designating April 9 to 11 of each year as Philippine Veterans Week in recognition of the gallantry of Filipino war veterans.

The defense department, along with other government agencies and non-government organizations organize series of events during the period to promote, preserve and recognize the heroic deeds of Filipino veterans.

On April 9, 1942, 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers surrendered to the Japanese at the tip of the Bataan Peninsula, which juts into Manila Bay in the Philippines. For nearly five months, the troops had fought ferociously against overwhelming odds until they ran out of food and water, medical supplies and ammunition. As prisoners of war (POWs), they and thousands of Filipinos were taken to a camp run by the Japanese army. This grueling series of marches are now known as the Bataan Death March.

Sources:

http://www.president.gov.ph/news/default.aspx?n=971

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araw_ng_Kagitingan

Huit for Tag-Init: Summer Arts Workshop for Kids Ages 6-13

2011-04-04T03:07:00.004+08:00

Huit for Tag-Init: Summer Arts Workshop for Kids Ages 6-13

Art is exciting to kids and more so if the workshop has eight (8) different emphases. At the Lopez Memorial Museum, Ikoy Ricio will facilitate Huit for Tag-Init workshop for children ages 6-13 on April 1, 4-8, 11-12, from 8:30-10am. The children will learn to work on dots and forms, perspective, portraits, textures, embossing, junk art and sculptures. Examples of works of French Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Art Nouveau and Australian aborigines will be used.

Ricio is a graduate of the UP College of Fine Arts. He has taught art at Kids at Art, Master’s Academy in Ortigas and Ateneo. Ricio is currently affiliated with Hope Christian High School and Raya School.

Lopez Museum & Library Joins Earth Hour At 8:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011

2011-03-22T14:31:00.005+08:00

Dear Kapamilya,

On Saturday, March 26 the Millions of people and business establishments all over the world will make a stand against climate change and take part of Earth Hour.

Every year the Lopez Group Foundation, Inc. has actively participated in Earth Hour and once again this year we would like to invite one and all to join us in celebrating Earth Hour on March 26 by turning off all our lights and electrical appliances at home and at work from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM.

I’s a small and simple act, but together will have a great impact on our communities, our country and in our planet. Join us this Saturday for Earth Hour…its time we give back to mother Earth for our sake and for our children. Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

Rafael M. Alunan III

President, Lopez Group Foundation, Inc.

Got Ideas? Come to the first gen meet of FEED Philippines! A Project of Rock Ed Philippines, 19 March 2PM @ Lopez Museum

2011-03-17T11:45:00.006+08:00

Rock Ed launches their feeding program at the Lopez Museum. The program is called FEED PHILIPPINES. FEED stands for Food and Education to Elevate and Develop. This Saturday is a working meeting where new volunteers can share their ideas on how to improve and incorporate feeding programs in public schools.

Everyone is welcome. Admission is Free.

Paolo Santos performs during the meeting.

For more info e-mail Rock Ed: feed@rockedphilippines.org

For inquiries, call Fanny at 631-2417. The Lopez Memorial Museum and Library is located at the ground floor of Benpres Building, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

Unleash your creativity and inner geek with Foldabots workshop in May at the Lopez Museum

2011-03-11T14:53:00.010+08:00

Discover the thrill of making your own toys, and get down and dirty with your inner child this summer! Join Jomike Tejido’s Foldabots art workshop happening at the Lopez Museum for three consecutive Saturday mornings, on May 8, 15 and 22, 2011.

In this three-day workshop, participants will learn Tejido’s creative process of conceptual design, prototype construction, and final art of making robot toys. Participants hone not just their drawing skills but their spatial relations as well, including basic paper engineering and strength of forms, basic 3D drawing and coloring, character design and descriptive writing. The final product will be a craft book compilation of the participants’ works.

Tejido, a University of Santo Tomas alumnus, passed the architect licensure exams in 2007. He is also a painter and book illustrator who has two Philippine National Children’s Book Awards under his belt. Aside from hosting the kiddie arts and crafts show “Art is Kool” (2004-2006), Tejido, 29, is also known for his “Mikrokosmos” comic strip in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Jomike Tejido’s Foldabots art workshop is limited to 16 slots only. Fee of P3,000 includes all art materials. Registration ends on April 20, 2011. For inquiries, call Fanny at 631-2417. The Lopez Memorial Museum and Library is located at the ground floor of Benpres Building, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

Artists’ Talk with Plataporma on March 12, 2011, Saturday, 2-4 pm

2011-03-09T10:40:00.015+08:00

New Information Update: 10 March 2011

Catch one of the hottest collectives working in the Philippine art scene on March 12, Saturday, 2-4 pm at the Lopez Memorial Museum.

In Artists’ Talk, the art collective Plataporma will discuss multimedia projects realized as part of their research-driven contribution to Lopez Museum's current exhibition, Extensions.

Plataporma’s Mervin Espina, Buen Calubayan, Lauren Villarama and Mark Salvatus will talk about their coming together as a process-based art and cultural research collective invited to do work related to Lopez Museum's past, present, and future marked off by its beginnings in the 1960s at Pasay, moving into Pasig in the 1980s, and eventual shift to a larger site to house the expanding library, laboratory and museum programs.

Begun as a challenge to realize a work for the exhibition pegged on the seminal period of the 1960s, Plataporma eventually extended their proposals to encompass how the museum as an institution can rethink its ideas about community, publics, and reach via technology as current as the web and as established as radio.

Plataporma’s Now/here is a series of projects that involve evolving multimedia components and installations that evaluates the geography and institutional history of the Lopez Museum. These projects can be viewed in Gallery 5 of the museum.

The soil used in one of the projects was excavated from the old site of the Lopez Museum in Pasay, which was torn down after the museum moved to its present site in 1985. Since architectural records of the Museum were lost, Plataporma cleared an area which approximates the interior floor area of the old building. A time-lapse video, projected on the dirt through a hole in the ceiling, shows the collective clearing a plot of land.

The Manansala mural tracing project is based on an archival photo from the Lopez Museum Library. The actual mural was destroyed along the old Lopez Museum building. As an attempt to salvage a lost work of art, the drawing will appear as a serialized coloring activity page.

The mapping project seeks to assess people’s familiarity with art and museums, particularly the Lopez Museum. Several interviews were conducted within a kilometer area of the past, present and futures sites. These interviews would function as possible template for future projects and interventions.

Ongoing until April 20, 2011, the exhibit Extensions also features multimedia work by Maya Muñoz, artists’ collaboratives PSP and the volunteer group Rock Ed Philippines. Extensions is a multisensory evocation of the way Lopez Museum commits to keeping itself dynamic, broadening its engagement with contemporary artists and a variety of publics. The exhibit caps the yearlong commemoration of the museum’s jubilee.

Artist Talk is from 2-4pm. Fee is P120 per person. For inquiries, call Fanny at 631-2417. The Lopez Memorial Museum and Library is located at the ground floor of Benpres Building, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

A Course on Fundamentals of Materials: Fiber and Paper

2011-02-14T19:00:00.003+08:00

Fundamentals of Materials: Fiber and Paper
With Mr Julio Ferrera, Mr Edilberto M. Castillo, Dr Remedios Abgona
And Loreto Apilado
In Cooperation with FIDA and CITC
February 23, 8am-5pm
Fee: Php1,000.00 (with morning and afternoon snacks but excluding lunch)
Contact Person: Ms Fanny San Pedro/Ms Jane Pagkalinawan
Contact Details: 6312417/admin@lopez-museum.org

On February 23, Wednesday, from 8am-5pm, the Lopez Memorial Museum, in cooperation with the FIDA and CITC, will hold a refresher course on fiber and paper. The course is geared towards helping those who work with fiber and paper either as artists, conservators, collections managers, etc. get a better grasp of the materials they will be making marks on, conserving, displaying, etc. The morning session will focus on Philippine tropical fibers used for textiles, classification of fibers and principles of fiber identification, and deterioration factors and preventive measures in the field and in museums. The history of paper, varieties of paper and techniques of papermaking and their effects will be the topics for the afternoon session. Fee of Php1,000 covers morning and afternoon snacks only.

Representatives of FIDA include Mr Edilberto Castillo whose specializations are morphological and anatomical analysis of plant fibers and fiber identification, Dr Remedios Abgona on plant diseases and fiber production and mechanization, and Mr Julio Ferrera on fiber grading and classification. Mr Loreto Apilado of CITC has been training extensively on paper, book binding and book repair here and abroad. He has given lecture and workshops on these also.

The Lopez Memorial Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. For more information, please call 6312417 or email admin@lopez-museum.org.

Watch the Streaming Video of the Toy Making Workshop at the Lopez Museum

2011-02-12T13:26:00.004+08:00

whatsupdagupan on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

Loob at Labas Exhibit: Join us for Podcast with Rock Ed Philippines on Saturday, Feb 5, 3PM at the Lopez Museum

2011-02-04T21:07:00.004+08:00

No to Mining in Palawan, an Open Letter by Ms. Gina Lopez

2011-02-03T13:09:00.008+08:00

My dear friends,

On January 24 a very dear friend and colleague Gerry Ortega was shot in the head dead. I was just with him that weekend - and a few minutes before he died what we were discussing over the phone was an anti-mining campaign in Palawan - given that on December two huge mining applications were railroaded - and they were to be near protected sites.

Gerry is dead but we will not let go of his dreams - and mine - and probably yours too.

Palawan has 17 key bio diversity sites - which means it is part of the 70% bio diversity sites which are essential for sustaining life in the planet. It has 2 world heritage sites, 8 protected sites. Yet if you see Palawan on the map you will note that it is a very thin island - which is 82% mountain. It means that if the forest gets denuded and the minerals excavated - the tailings seep directly into the sea affecting the coral reefs. The top soil is thin - and the island eco system is fragile.

Mining is not the way to go for Palawan. I have five eco tourism sites wherein the communities involved can now send their children to school, can dream bigger dreams. Mayor Hagedorn in Puerto Princesa has banned mining and logging - and focused on tourism and agriculture. From 2 flights a week, Puerto Princesa now boasts 10 flights a day. His revenues have gone up from several million to several billion.

Mining as an economic path in a magnificent "Last Frontier" is based on a paradigm of economic growth that is myopic and archaic . In this age of climate change and global warming any economic development that does not recognize and revere the web of life should be thrown in the dustbin.

Please please support the ten million signature campaign to Stop Mining in Palawan. The richness of Palawan is the wealth and pride of the country, it is the wealth of the world. Log in to www.no2mininginpalawan.com register your vote and please please send it to thousands others. You can also include your household by downloading the form printing it - and faxing it to 4152227 or you can scan it and send it to signatures@no2mininginpalawan.com. Questions can be sent to signatures@no2mininginpalawan.com.

Please pass on to everyone!!! Thanks!!!

Toy Making Workshop with Pilipinas Street Plan on Feb 12

2011-01-31T15:29:00.007+08:00

In an effort to provide learning opportunities to schoolchildren in public schools, the Lopez Memorial Museum teams up with the art collective Pilipinas Street Plan (PSP), Knowledge Channel Foundation and Boysen Paints for Gawa/Laro, a toy making workshop to be held on February 12, 2011, Saturday from 9 am to 12 noon.

The workshop participants will use a variety of taka, a traditional art form of Paete, Laguna using paper mache to create toys. Some of the toys made will be sold in Art in the Park on February 19, 2011. The proceeds will go to Knowledge Channel’s programs for Filipino schoolchildren.

PSP’s toy making workshop complements the current exhibition Extensions which also features multimedia work by the collectives Plataporma, Rock Ed Philippines including contemporary artist Maya Muñoz. In the exhibit, PSP rendered a Philippine map on one of the gallery walls; the wall serves as the ground where the street artists marked various landmarks, tagged with stickers, stenciled and sprayed images which have made PSP literally present in these sites. Surrounding and opposite the wall are various small-sized works: light boxes, paintings and painted vinyl toys which serve as further documentation of PSP's broadened art practice.

Extensions is a multisensory evocation of the way Lopez Museum commits to keeping itself dynamic, broadening its engagement with contemporary artists and a variety of publics in as wide a spectrum of languages as possible. The exhibition caps the yearlong commemoration of the Lopez Museum’s jubilee.

Workshop fee of Php 1,000 covers materials. Slot limited, To reserve a slot, call Fanny at 631-2417.

Open Call for sound works proposals for Lopez Museum’s October 2011 Zero In exhibition

2011-01-13T10:27:00.002+08:00

Lopez Museum is pleased to receive proposals from artists/art collectives for projects intrinsically built upon sound elements which may be realized on-site at the museum’s spaces or off-site (while still referencing the museum and library) as virtual/ cyber initiatives that may be accessed through mobile devices.

Proponents are encouraged to anchor their projects upon past LMM exhibits and elements of the collection whether from the museum or library archive. Proposals with collaborative/interactive potential and which facilitate engagement across institutions/spaces/artists’ groups such as the case of joint research, and co-production/ counterpart resourcing will be given preference.

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2011 (either hard copy by 5pm at the museum or via email as a pdf file by 12mn)