Lesson 6: Support Systems,

Institutions and Initiatives

Across the Regions
What do we mean by Support System of the Arts?

• Institution
• Organization & Collectives
• Media
• Alternative Platforms
 What are the different types of institutions,
organizations and platforms?
• Support system can be government-initiated, community or municipality-
based, privately supported, university oriented, artist-run or internet-based.
• Educational institutions such as schools and universities offer formal artistic
training and grant degrees upon completion of an academic program at the
tertiary or post-graduate level.
• Non-government and academic sectors have also actively taken part in the
staging of contemporary theatrical performances in the country foremost of
which are the PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association) Kalinangan
Ensemble which stages original works and translations for community
theater performances.
• In 1970s, dance choreographers such as National Artist Leonor Orosa
Goquingco thought of creating a fusion between classical ballet and
Philippine folk dance.
• In the visual arts, museum are traditionally based on a collection of objects.
Tasked to preserve heritage for the enjoyment and education of present and
future generations, museums are often linked to ideas of permanence and
authority.
• If museums are spaces of knowledge production and galleries, of
consumption, auction houses and art fairs are places that specifically
respond to the market.
• In terms of Literature, the Carlos Palanca Annual Awards has been the
leading award giving body that has encourage and acknowledge the works
of Filipino playwrights, novelist, poets and scripwriters from film and
television for almost three decades.
Lesson 7: Mediums
and Techniques
Unit II: Streaming
What is Medium?
- the material or the substance out of which a
work is made.
 The sculptor uses metal, wood,
stone and glass.
- Sculptures fall within the category of “three-
dimensional” arts.
- Pottery is a form of sculpture.
- Guillermo Tolentino’s Oblation
- bulul woodcarving
- santos or carvings of saints in Christian
Churches
 The architect uses wood,
bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete
and various materials.
- Buildings are also called “three-dimensional” arts
 The painter uses pigments on a
usually flat ground.
The printmaker uses ink printed
or transferred on a surface (wood,
metal, plates or silk screen) that is in
duplicating or reproducing process.
- “two-dimensional” arts
 The musician uses sounds
and instruments.

The dancer uses the body and

its movements.
 The theater artist integrates all
the arts and uses the stage,
production design, performance
elements, and script enable to visual,
musical, dance and other aspects to
come together as a whole work.
 The photographer and filmmaker use the
camera to record the outside world. The
filmmaker uses the cinematographic camera to
record and put together production design,
sound engineering, performance and screenplay.
 The writer of a novel, poetry,
nonfiction and fiction uses words .
 Practical
Environmental
Pictorial
Auditory
Narrative
Dramatic
Musical
What is Technique?
- the manner in which artists use and manipulate
materials to achieved the desired formal effect and
communicate the desired concept or meaning according to
his or her personal style.

- involves tools and technology.

FILIPINO STRUGGLES THROUGH HISTORY
By Carlos Francisco
BONIFACIO MONUMENT
By Guillermo Tolentino
How is art experienced and consumed?

ART ARTIFACT

Spatial and Static or

Unmoving

Time-based and in motion

Thank you for listening
& participating! 
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