Tag: Rizal Center
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Featuring Jaden Angara
Jaden Angara is a Chicago born artist who found their love for Mosiacs during the Summer of 2023. Statement: Generations Blooming is a commissioned work which bridges a span of four generations. The centerpiece and butterflies were created by Natividad “Lola Nattie” Angara in the early 1990s. Lola Nattie’s love and appreciation for flowers was…
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Featuring: Pat Nabong
Pat Nabong is a landscape oil painter and photographer. She works full time as an assistant photo editor and visual journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times. Prior to joining the Sun-Times, she worked as an independent visual journalist in the Philippines where her father taught her how to use the camera to see the world in…
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Featuring: Lea May Rivera
Lea May Rivera is a first-generation Filipino American mixed media artist, born in 1990, with humble beginnings in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised for a time in between Manila, Philippines and the United States. At an early age, she was self taught in drawing figures, painting landscapes, and later in portraiture. As an honors graduate, she…
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Featuring: Lisa-Villa-Mosser
Lisa Villa-Moser (b. 1973) is an American contemporary painter and visual artist. She discovered an innate love of art as a child in Manila and went on to develop her talents in Chicago. She studied studio arts at the Chicago Academy for the Arts High School before attending SVA in NYC, SAIC and Parsons Paris.…
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Rizal Center Welcomes New Staff Members with Support from Cook County Grant
Rizal Center is excited to announce the addition of two new team members, made possible through a generous grant from the Cook County Starting Block Grant Award Program. This funding will increase its capacity to fulfill its mission of enhancing the quality of life for Filipinos and Filipino Americans in Greater Chicago through advocacy, cultural…
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Digital Art Gallery
Aireen Arellano’s art explores themes of juxtaposition, Filipino American identity, belonging, healing generational trauma, and pop culture. A child of 1st generation Filipino immigrants, she was born in Chicago in 1983 and lived in Marquette Park until her parents moved her family to the southwest suburbs in the early 1990s. Influenced by the Pop Art…
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Premiere of Historical 16mm Viernes Films
Join us this upcoming Saturday, March 30 at 6 p.m. at the Rizal Center for a history-making event at CIRCA Pintig’s 33rd Anniversary. These home movies fill in the void of cinematic memory that was lost in the event of World War II, as only 5 feature films made in the Philippines made prior to the war have…
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Dancing with Rizal
Have you heard of Filipino folk dances like Binasuan, Bulaklakan, Karatong, and Maglalatik? We are excited to offer Dancing with Rizal, which consists of free introductory dance workshops teaching you the art and movement of Filipino dance. Sign up for one 2-hour session to learn basic choreography to use and make into your own. Use…