Kevin Pison Piamonte, a renowned Ilonggo in the Philippine arts community, has been awarded the University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) Distinguished Alumni Award for Culture and the Arts in Film for his efforts in preserving Visayas tradition and heritage.
Artists Boy Masculino (b. 1960) and Ric Isiderio (b. 1961), both from Oton were part of the early wave of art revival in Iloilo that began in the mid1970s and continued through the 1980s. Their recent two-person solo exhibition in Oval Art Gallery attests to their undiminished fervor for creating art despite the passage of time. Their exhibition collectively titled Face to Face are subtitled Ulan-Init for Masculino’s sculpture collection, and Tinta for Isiderio’s drawings and paintings.
