The Vermont Hibernation Project features works by Pinoy artists Plet Bolipata and Thomas Daquioag during their stay at the Vermont Studio Center in the US as fellows under the Freeman Fellowship for Asian Artists.

Bolipata is known for her whimsical, colorful Manet-inspired works in mixed media. Some of her works were used as illustrations for the Japanese fable “The Hummingbird” as part of a full-color trilogy of environmental stories published by nonprofit artist org Canvas.

A pack of Marlboro reds. Pizza from a convenience store. Necklaces from a loved one. A pair of Chucks. Glow-in-the-dark bracelets. They may mean nothing to you or me, but to writers and artists Evan Tan and …

The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) celebrated its 40th year recently with a concert featuring songs from some of PETA’s most memorable plays Pilipinas Circa 1907, Diablos, 1896, Panata sa Kalayaan, Canuplin, Hanggang Dito na Lamang, at Maraming …

Update! The guided tour has been canceled due to bad weather. Stand by for new schedule. For more inquiries, please contact Silverlens. Contact information is listed below.

Join Silverlens director Isa Lorenzo as she gives a guided tour of two current shows at the National Museum: “Counter-Photography,” presented by the Japan Foundation and the Japanese Embassy, and “Swarm in the Aperture,” put together by National Museum curator Patrick Flores.

The exhibit “Six Degrees of Separation” refers not only to the linkages between people but to six Filipino artists who, despite their different styles, are brought together by their artistic compasses.

Three of these artists are abstractionists: Wilfredo Offemaria, Jr. and Gonzalo Uy have a penchant for texture and atmospheric conditions while Jucar Raquepo is known for his contrasting brights accented by angularity.

Want to make a point but can’t seem to get it across? You might want to try applying the philosophy of Pecha Kucha if you want to, say, get the boss to listen to your brilliant idea or your significant other to understand why he needs to take out the trash regularly.

Pecha Kucha–pronounced peh-chak-cha, meaning “the sound of conversation” in Japanese–is the art of making your point in the shortest time possible and before your audience tunes out. It’s an anything-goes tableau in which a speaker can talk about anything–his insect collection, his newly born daughter, maybe even SEO techniques–all in 6 minutes and 40 seconds and presented in 20 slides. That’s 20 seconds for each slide.