Muslim sculptor endorsed as National Artist
Salam/Peace:
This multiawarded sculptor and painter may not be as well-known as many fellow artists of his caliber, but he may yet emerge as the first Muslim to make it to the roster of national artists.
Malacañang is being swamped with petitions and endorsements from several individuals and organizations, especially from Mindanao, for conferring on Abdulmari Asia Imao the National Artist award for visual arts, an administration source disclosed yesterday.
Aside from being a gifted visual artist, Imao, 69, is also a writer, photographer, cultural researcher and educator who “has contributed to Philippine arts through the development of a body of works are modern and yet rooted in the indigenous.”
Read the whole article at:
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics06_april18_2006
This multiawarded sculptor and painter may not be as well-known as many fellow artists of his caliber, but he may yet emerge as the first Muslim to make it to the roster of national artists.
Malacañang is being swamped with petitions and endorsements from several individuals and organizations, especially from Mindanao, for conferring on Abdulmari Asia Imao the National Artist award for visual arts, an administration source disclosed yesterday.
Aside from being a gifted visual artist, Imao, 69, is also a writer, photographer, cultural researcher and educator who “has contributed to Philippine arts through the development of a body of works are modern and yet rooted in the indigenous.”
Read the whole article at:
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics06_april18_2006
posted by Samana Siddiqui @ 3:19 PM
2 Comments:
At 8:35 AM,
Anonymous said…
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At 10:25 AM,
Edward Ott said…
Mashallah that is fantastic news It is always good to see a Muslim aRTIST RECOGNIZED FOR HIS WORK.
Wassalam
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