Submission deadline for art award extended

THE Maningning Miclat Art Foundation, Inc. (MMAFI), in cooperation with District Gallery and Far Eastern University (FEU), has extended the submission of online entries to the 2018 Maningning Miclat Art Award to July 31. Entries must be submitted to maningning2018@gmail.com. Artists of shortlisted entries will be informed through e-mail on Aug. 13. The actual artwork of shortlisted entries should be submitted along with other requirements to the FEU President’s Committee on Culture office no later than Aug. 28. Shortlisted entries will be unveiled and displayed at the Exhibit Hall of the FEU Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts from Sept. 3 to 28. Awarding will be at FEU on Sept. 28 back-to-back with the performance art, Ginugunita Kita. All submitted artworks will be available for sale. The grand prize winner, to be chosen by the Board of Judges, will receive a Julie Lluch sculpture trophy, P 28,000, a Mic lat book collection, and a solo exhibit at District Gallery. Maningning Miclat was a poet of three languages, prize-winning artist, published essayist, translator/interpreter and teacher. She passed on at the age of 28 in 2000. In her honor, the MMAFI, which was formed in 2001, has been organizing activities aimed at encouraging creativity and recognizing, awarding and nurturing outstanding and talented young poets and artists 28 years old and younger, the same age when she died. Poetry and painting competitions are held alternately, poetry during odd-numbered years and painting during even-numbered years. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/

brilliant. m an ingning /. For inquiries, e-mail maningningfoundation@gmail.com.