Holy Rosary Academy of Las Piñas City

SY 2023-2024
Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions
Grade 12
4TH Quarter

I. Tittle/ Lesson / Topic: Lesson 2 Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan Artists

II. Content/Description

Ginaw Bilog
Poet,Hanunuo Mangyan (Panaytayan, Oriental Mindoro)1993

• Ginaw Bilog helped preserved the Mangyan literary tradition by

documenting the pieces of ambahan recorded not only on bamboo tubes
but also on notebooks passed on to him.
• It is etched on the bamboo tubes using ancient Southeast Asian, Pre
Colonial script called Surat Mangyan.
• The ambahan is a poetic literary form composed of seven-syllables. It is
usually sung.
• He Shares old and new ambahans with his fellow Mangyans and
promotes this poetic form in every occasions.

MASINO INTARAY
Musician and Storyteller (Brookes Point, Palawan) 1993

• Outstanding master of the basal, kulilal and bagit ,

• A gifted poet, bard artist, and musician
• He also plays the aroding (mouth harp) and babarak (ring flute) and
above all is a prolific and pre-eminent epic chanter and story teller.
• He has the creative memory, endurance clarity of intellect and spiritual
purpose that enable him to chant all through the night, for successive
nights, countless tultul (epics), sudungit (narratives), and tuturan (myths
of origin and teachings of ancestors).

ARODING BBARAK
SAMAON SULAIMAN (+ 2011)
Musician (Mama sa Pano, Maguindanao) 1993
• Master in the use of the kulintang and kutyapi of the Maguindanaons.
• His extensive repertoire of dinaladay, linapu, minuna, binalig and other
forms and styles.
• He achieved the highest level of excellence in the art of kutyapi playing.
• He is also proficient in kulintang, agong, gandingan, palendag and
tambul.

PALENDAG

KUTYAPI

KULINTANG

AGONG
GANDINGAN

LANG DULAY
Textile Weaver T’boli (Lake Sebu, South Cotabato )1998

• She is credited with preserving her people's tradition of weaving T'nalak, a

dyed fabric made from refined abaca fiber.
• She knows a hundred designs, including the bulinglangit (clouds), bankiring
(hair bangs), and the kabangi (butterfly), each one special for the stories it
tells and some of these were based on her dreams, hence her description as a
"dreamweaver“.
• Her textiles are judged excellent because of the “fine even quality of the
yarn, the close interweaving of the warp and weft, the precision in the forms
and patterns, the chromatic integrity of the dye, and the consistency of the
finish.”

EDUARDO MUTUC
Metalsmith (Apalit Pampanga) 2004
• He is a known to be a practitioner of the craft of pinukpuk which involved
the stamping of embellishments on metal sheets.
• Eduardo Mutuc dedicated his life in sculpting retablos, mirrors, altars, and
carosas from silver, bronze, and wood.
• Artist who has dedicated his life to creating religious and secular art in silver,
bronze and wood.
• The only way to improve one’s skills, he says, is to immerse oneself, learn
the technique, and to practice. Only in perfecting one’s craft can there be real
reward.
TEOFILO GARCIA
Casque maker (San Quintin, Abra) 2012

• He is known for making tabungaw hats, a type of Ilocano headwear.

• It is made of the native gourd, hollowed out, polished, and varnished to a
bright orange sheen to improve its weather resistance.
• He would also innovate on the creation of tabungaw hats experimenting on
using nito and bamboo fibers as decor.

III. Reference : Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Region