Tag: Rizal Center
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Rizal Center Proudly Welcomes New Board Member
Deyi is a graduate of Far Eastern University, Manila, College of Nursing Class of 1979. She worked as a community-based health nurse for underserved populations in rural and urban areas in the Philippines. She migrated to the U.S. in the early eighties, worked for 20 years in psychiatry, orthopedics, and medical-surgical units in the Rush-Presbyterian…
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Featuring: Magdalena Arguelles
Title: Ephemeral Beach Collages, Barrido, Ajuy, Iloilo, Philippines (2/2025) Excerpt: Magadelna Arguelles -water-based oil, photo collage on canvas, 9 x 12
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Featuring: Marea Cordero
Marea Cordero Marea hand cuts intricate, layered, paper art focused on anatomy, spirituality, and the ability to evolve in adversity. Paper shifts from a format for art to be created upon into art itself by sacrificing pieces of itself. It becomes line and form, letting the space it lives in contain a new object. Bold,…
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Featuring: Peter Stewart Tobio Stover
Peter Stewart Tobio Stover is an intrepid adventurer exploring the higher potential of cultures and creative innovation. He was born in Tacloban City, Leyte and grew up in Michigan. He has traveled all over the US for several decades tracking and documenting the ways social harmony may be achieved through dance, electronic music, and a…
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Featuring: Susan Cua
Susan Cua is a Filipino-born, Chinese Filipino American artist whose work reflects her lifelong passion for painting, music, travel, and cultural heritage. Growing up in Manila, she discovered art early and carried that creative drive to the U.S. at 18, eventually settling in Evanston, Illinois. Supported by the local arts community, she developed a style…
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Featuring: Cesar Conde
Cesar Conde is a Filipino immigrant shaped by diaspora and Martial Law, has lived between Chicago and Seattle, where early experiences with school integration influenced his socially engaged art. A contemporary realist painter trained at the Angel Academy in Florence and under Patrick Betaudier in France, he also works as an actor, writer, and activist.…
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Featuring: Set Gozo
Ancestors, 5”x6” Porcelain Set Gozo Set is a visual artist born in the Philippines. She grew up in a small town called Majayjay, Laguna. She moved to Chicago with her entire family in 1987. Set’s interest in art comes in at an early age, growing up in a naturally rich environment. Her town is at the…
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Featuring: Lawrence Leopoldo
Look Into My Eye and See, 39×46 Oil on Wood Lawrence (Larry) Leopoldo Larry uses oil on wood to explore the themes of nature using kut kut and coloring techniques. His influence comes from the kut kut* and the abstract landscape.IG @LARRYLEOPOLDO *Kut-kut, a method involving incised woodblocks, represents a crucial development in the history…
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Featuring: Myra Kalaw
Myra Kalaw Myra (she/her) was born and raised in the Philippines where she first discovered a love for books and reading. At Columbia College Chicago, she combined her two passions — Poetry and Book & Paper Arts, by learning how to print books the old-fashioned way like the poets, Blake and Whitman. She has lived…
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Featuring: Jose Aggari Jr.
Jose G. Aggari, Jr. Jose discovered his passion for art and music as a child growing up in a family of artists. He is accomplished in painting, sculpture, and architecture, and is also a gifted percussionist and saxophonist. Aggari left the Philippines for Chicago at the age of 13 and studied art and architecture at…