Have you heard of the American Museum of Philippine Art? Probably not, since it’s still something of a pipe dream, but some people on both sides of the Pacific are blowing very hard on their pipes to make it happen. Those people include businessman Raffy Benitez, president of the Quezon City-based Erehwon Arts Center, and University of the Philippines professor and art expert Dr. Reuben Cañete, who developed the idea late 2015, after Erehwon’s successful involvement in a binational mural project at Chicago’s Field Museum sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through Dr. Almira Astudillo-Gilles, a Chicago based Fil-Am writer and cultural advocate.
That positive experience encouraged Raffy and Reuben to conceive of a bigger and more enduring project that would bring Philippine art even closer to Americans—not just the huge and broadly dispersed Filipino community in the US, but the American public at large. Raffy and Reuben noted that the Mexicans and the Chinese, among other immigrant groups in America, both had their art museums, but that Filipinos—among the largest and fastest-growing minorities in America—did not.
Reuben recalled the long tradition of Filipino artists going over to the US to study and to work—such as Guillermo Tolentino, Victorio Edades, and Alfonso de Ossorio, among others—and observed that while strong cultural ties remained between the two countries, the connection was overwhelmingly one-way, with Philippine art (and music and literature, for that matter) being little known and appreciated in the US.
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“In this age of globalization, art is now a global commodity that is exhibited and collected by various international venues, such as Art Basel Miami. Philippine Art, both in its historical as well as contemporary manifestations, must now be aggressively promoted in the United States, which is a major area of collection and promotion of global art, ” Dr. Cañete would say in a concept paper on AMPA.
Karlota I. Contreras-Koterbay, a prizewinning Fil-Am sculptor and Director of the Slocumb Galleries at East Tennessee State University, agrees, writing that “There is a rich and dynamic art practice by Filipino-Americans in the US. However, there is a huge discrepancy in the visibility and recognition with regard to the idea and form of ‘Philippine Art’.
“The Philippines is the second-highest Asian country whose citizens migrate to the US. The Filipinos have a long, complex history of immigration and residency in America, yet ‘Philippine Art’ is not as accessible nor recognizable in popular culture nor in the global art world. This statement does not claim that there is a lack of talent nor creativity; on the contrary, there are thriving communities of artists, art groups, and cultural workers who are making a difference in their respective locales, as well as receiving recognition for their work in the field of arts.”
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To take the first steps toward turning vision into reality, the American Museum of Philippine Art Foundation, Inc. (AMPAFI) was formally launched on July 12 at the Holiday Inn in Diamond Bar, California, in a day-long meeting attended by a couple of dozen participants from all over the US.
We all realize that this project will take many years, enormous resources, and tremendous effort and optimism to realize. (Being Filipinos, we expect a lot of naysaying, and I’ve been Raffy’s chief buzz killer whenever I think someone needs to pull his feet back to earth, but I have to admire the man’s guts and what he’s done at Erehwon. The museum as Raffy and Reuben envisage it is a mini-CCP, with enough spaces for exhibitions and performances (and even classes in Pinoy cooking), and the renowned architect Conrado Onglao was motivated and generous enough to contribute a prospective design for the building. That may be years down the road, but in the meanwhile, AMPAFI is taking early and doable steps toward building a countrywide arts community—a virtual museum, as it were—in cooperation with other groups such as Bernadette Escalona-Cooper’s Silicon Valley-based Global Artists’ Creative Collaboration for Empowerment (GACCE), whose leaders also attended the launch.Scice and technology in the Philippines describes scitific and technological progress made by the Philippines and analyses related policy issues. The main agcy responsible for managing scice and technology (S&T) is the Departmt of Scice and Technology (DOST). There are also sectoral councils for Forestry, Agriculture and Aquaculture, the Metal Industry, Nuclear Research, Food and Nutrition, Health, Meteorology, Volcanology and Seismology.
Scice is a systematic terprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of explanations and predictions about nature and the universe.
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Technology is the collection of techniques and processes used in the production of goods or services, or the accomplishmt of objectives such as scitific investigation.
Among the m and wom who have made contributions to scice are Fe del Mundo in the field of pediatrics, Eduardo Quisumbing in plant taxonomy, Gavino Trono in tropical marine phycology and Maria Orosa in the field of food technology.
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription shows the use of mathematics in precolonial Philippine societies. A standard system of weights and measures is demonstrated by the use of precise measuremt for gold, and familiarity with rudimtary astronomy is shown by fixing the precise day within the month in relation to the phases of the moon.
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Shipbuilding showed geometric thinking and mastery of convexity, concavity, and the proper proportion betwe ship breadth and lgth to sure sailing efficicy. The practice of constructing as much as twelve ships and boats to fit inside each other, not unlike matryoshka dolls containing each other, can be interpreted as large three-dimsional wood demonstration of sets, subsets, volumes, and ordinality.
The colonization of the Philippines contributed to the growth of scice and technology in the archipelago. The Spanish introduced formal education and founded scitific institution. During the early years of Spanish rule in the Philippines. Parish schools were established where religion, reading, writing, arithmetic and music was taught. Sanitation and more advanced methods of agriculture was taught to the natives. Later the Spanish established colleges and universities in the archipelago including the University of Santo Tomas.
Accounts by Spanish friars in the 1580s showed that astronomy was already known and practiced. The accounts also give the local names of constellations, such as Moroporo for the Pleiades and Balatik for Ursa Major among others.
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In 1687, Isaac Newton included an explicit referce to the Philippines in his classic Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by mtioning Leuconia, the ancit Ptolemaic name for the Philippines.
The study of medicine in the Philippines was giv priority in the Spanish era, especially in the later years. The Spanish also contributed to the field of gineering in the islands by constructing governmt buildings, churches, roads, bridges and forts.
Biology is giv focus. Contributors to scice in the archipelago during the 19th ctury were botanists, Fr. Ignacio Mercado., Dr. Trinidad Pardo de Tavera and Dr. Leon Ma Guerrero, chemist Anaclto del Rosario, and medicine scholars Dr. Manuel Guerrero, Dr, Jose Montes and Dr. Elrodario Mercado.
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The Galleon Trade have accounted in the Philippine colonial economy. Trade was giv more focus by the Spaniard colonial authorities due to the prospects of big profits. Agriculture and industrial developmt on the other hand were relatively neglected.
The oping of the Suez Canal saw the influx of European visitors to the Spanish colony and some Filipinos were able to study in Europe who were probably influced by the rapid developmt of scitific ideals brought by the Age of lightmt.
The progress of scice and technology in the Philippines continued under American rule. On July 1, 1901, the Philippine Commission established the Bureau of Governmt Laboratories which was placed under the Departmt of Interior. The Bureau replaced the Laboratorio Municipal, which was established under the Spanish colonial era. The Bureau dealt with the study of tropical diseases and laboratory projects. On October 26, 1905, the Bureau of Governmt Laboratories was replaced by the Bureau of Scice and on December 8, 1933, the National Research Council of the Philippines was established.
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Scice during the American period was inclined towards agriculture, food processing, medicine and pharmacy. Not much focus was giv on the developmt of industrial technology due to free trade policy with the United States which nurtured an economy geared towards agriculture and trade.
In 1946 the Bureau of Scice was replaced by the Institute of Scice. In a report by the US Economic Survey to the Philippines in 1950, there is a lack of basic information which were necessities to the country's industries, lack of support of experimtal work and minimal budget for scitific research and low salaries of scitists employed by the governmt. In 1958, during the regime of Presidt Carlos P. Garcia, the Philippine Congress passed the Scice Act of 1958 which established the National Scice Developmt Board.
During Ferdinand Marcos' presidcy, the importance giv to scice grew. In the amded 1973 Philippine Constitution, Article XV, Section 9 (1), he declared that the advancemt of scice and technology shall have priority in the national developmt.
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In his Second State of the Nation Address on January 23, 1967, he declared that scice was necessary for the developmt programs, and thus, directed the Departmt of Education to revitalize the scice courses in public
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