I. Answer the following comprehensively.

1. Give the different categories that national artists can win.

They can win in category of music, dance, film and broadcasting art, literature, theater, visual
arts, and architecture art.

2. What can you say about the criteria in winning a National Artist?

For me, it is very long process for you to win as a national artist like you need 10years for you to
become Filipino citizen. There are many requirements for you to able to join or become as national artist
which is if you are determine to become a national artist you are willing to be one of the criteria in
winning for this title. Also having a heart for this title and for what you are doing will give you a chance
to become national artist.

3. If you will be given a chance to change the criteria for national artists, what will it be? Why do you
want to change it?

If I have a chance to change one of the criteria for national artist, which is I want to change the
year to become one of the Filipino citizen. I want to make it short like 8 years because for me 8 years will
be okay to become Filipino citizen. I hope that even 8 years of living here in Philippines you will be
candidate for national artist. Also I hope that it won’t be a barrier for us/others to become national artist.

II. Choose one Philippine artist for each field or category. Search for his/her biography (experiences
before he/she became a National Artist). Then, reflect on his/her experiences in life. You can relate it to
yours, your realizations in life, and lessons you got from his/her experiences.

AWARDEE (DATE OF BIOGRAPHY YOUR REFLECTION

AWARD)- CATEGORY HE/SHE
WON

Born Raymundo Cayabyab in I learned that your talent can

RYAN CAYABYAB 1954 in Santa Cruz, Manila, he
2018 suffered the death of his mother,
Celerina Venson Pujante (she
National Artist of the died of cancer at the age of 43),
Philippines for Music when he was 6 years old. His
father, Alberto Austria Cayabyab,
who was an ordinary government
employee, struggled to support
him and his three siblings. An
opera singer and a college
professor at the UP School of
Music (to whom he considered
her as his first piano teacher), his
mother's dying wish was that
none of the children pursue a
music career, as she knew how
hard life it was, with often low
earnings. At the age of 4,
Cayabyab began his musical
education with piano lessons.
help you to become successful in
your life. But it is up to you on
how you will use your talents. In
case of Mr. Ryan Cayabyab, by
his talent he was discovered and
gave him scholarship. So with
the big help of that he managed
to become successful teacher to
teach other people about music.
And I also learned to continue
pursuing your dream even if it is
hard at first you need to become
strong for you to able to achieve
your dream.

Cayabyab initially took up

Bachelor of Science in Business
Administration in the University
of the Philippines, Diliman.
Looking for work to support his
studies, he landed with then-
Senator Salvador Laurel as
accompanist for the Chorale
Ensemble of the Development
Bank of the Philippines (DBP).
Noticing Cayabyab's exceptional
talent on playing the piano,
Laurel offered Cayabyab a
scholarship to enable him to
pursue an education in music.

Cayabyab graduated from

the UP College of Music earning a
Bachelor of Music, Major in
Theory degree. Eventually, he
became a full-time professor for
the Department of Composition
and Music Theory in the UP
Diliman for almost two decades.
 Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio, known In her story, when he was
Amelia Lapeña as Tita Amel to her students, was assigned at 18 characters. I
Bonifacio born in Binondo, Manila in 1930. learned that no matter how many
She studied Japanese traditional tasks assign to you, just do it
2018 theatre (supported by Office of and be strong and set our mind
Asian Pacific Affairs ASPAC), that this tasks will be worth it
National Artist of the
South East Asian traditional and useful in the future, and it
Philippines for Theater
theatre (supported by the Ford will help us in our future.
Foundation), and international
children’s theatre (supported by
the Toyota Foundation).
Research convinced her of the
necessity of a theatre for young
audiences using Asian and
Filipino folktales and utilizing
puppets inspired by
Japanese Bunraku and
Indonesian wayang (rod puppets
and shadow theatre styles).

Bonifacio became a Fulbright

scholar in 1956 and obtained her
Master of Arts degree in Speech
and Drama at the University of
Wisconsin in 1958. She wrote her
first play, “Sepang Loca,” in 1957
and followed this up with
“Rooms” the following year. Both
works won awards in the
Wisconsin Playwrighting
Competition and were staged at
the UW Play Circle Theater, with
the author herself designing
“Sepang Loca.” The two plays
were later published in literary
journals in the United States.

During those times, the young

Asian Fulbright scholar was told
by one of her American
professors that her one-act play
had 18 characters, far too
numerous for the standard
format of that time. Her material
also delved into abortion, which
was barely spoken of in the
1950s. The young Amelia replied
that in her milieu, Asian plays did
tend to have a lot of characters,
regardless of the running time.
 Not long after, the professor
apologized to her privately for
not assessing her play correctly.

Her research into traditional

theatre of the Philippines was
supported by the University of
the Philippines' Office of
Research Coordination, Zarzuela
Foundation of the Philippines,
Inc., and the American
Philosophical Society.

Reyes was born in October 1942. In her story when she retire and
Alice Reyes At a very young age, Reyes took then suddenly she back to her
2014 up lessons in classical ballet career in Ballet Philippines. I
under Rosalia Merino while learned that no matter what
National Artist of the studying at Maryknoll happen you will back and resume
Philippines for Dance College where she completed a your career because it is the only
Bachelor of Arts degree in History partner in your life even if the
and Foreign Services. world hates you and feel you are
lonely.
Soon after, she took post-
graduate studies at Ateneo de
Manila University. She further
trained under the guidance
of Leonor Orosa Goquingco and
Ricardo Casell of the Philippine
Women's University (PWU).

In addition, she took up folk

dance at the Bayanihan
Philippine National Folk Dance
Company. Thinking of deepening
her professional studies, she
went to America and enrolled in
formal courses in modern dance
and jazz.

In New York, she took the

opportunity to take more formal
studies at Sarah Lawrence
College in Westchester County,
New York.

Tahimik attended the University I learned that no matter how

Kidlat Tahimik of the Philippines Diliman, where
2018 he was elected President of
the UP Student Council, then
National Artist of the known as the University Student
Philippines for Film Union, from 1962 to 1963. While
important your job you should
always flex where you came. We
should always give importance
and look back to the place where
we used to live and grew.
 attending the university he
became a member of the Upsilon
Sigma Phi fraternity. Tahimik
studied at the University of
Pennsylvania's Wharton School,
earning a Master in Business
Administration. Upon his return,
he founded AIESEC in the
Philippines.

He worked as a researcher for

the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and
Development (OECD) in Paris
from 1968 to 1972

Growing up in Bulacan among I realize that during our formal

Virgilio S. Almario peasants, Almario sought his education, it will help us to
2003 education at the City of discover our secret talents and
Manila and completed his degree help us to improve our talents
National Artist of the in A.B. Political Science at that we can use even if we
Philippines for Literature the University of the Philippines cannot or able to graduate. That
Diliman. talent will help us to improve our
life and help us to become
His life as a poet started when he
successful using our own talents.
took master's units in education
at the University of the
East where he became
associated with Rogelio G.
Mangahas and Lamberto E.
Antonio. He did not finish the
program.

He only took his M.A. in Filipino

in 1974 at the University of the
Philippines Diliman.

He was born on August 18, 1926 I realized that through our

Larry Alcala to Ernesto Alcala and Elpidia observation or experiences we
2018 Zarate in Daraga, Albay. Through can make arts and by that there
a scholarship from Manila is a possibility that we can be
National Artist of the Times granted by the publisher known or successful artist. And
Philippines for Visual Arts Ramón Roces, he obtained a help us to our career just like
degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in what Mr. Larry Alcala srats his
Painting at the University of the own art.
Philippines (UP) in 1950. He
became a professor at the same
university from 1951 to 1981. He
also received the Australian
Cultural Award accompanied by a
travel study grant in 1975.
He started his cartooning career
in 1946 while still attending
school. After World War II, he
created his very first comic
strip, Islaw Palitaw, which was
printed on the pages of the
Filipino weekly
magazine Liwayway. In 1947, he
created the comic strip Kalabog
en Bosyo, using Taglish as the
medium of communication of his
characters. He pioneered
animated cartoons for television
commercials of products such as
Darigold Milk in 1957
and Caltex in 1965. His campaign
for the advancement of
illustration and commercial art in
the Philippines resulted to the
establishment of the Visual
Communication Department at
the UP College of Fine Arts.

In 1997, the Philippine Board on

Books for Young People (PBBY)
granted him the title Dean of
Filipino Cartoonists, an
achievement award for his
lifetime dedication to the art of
capturing humor in the character
and everyday life in
the Philippines. In 1991, he
promoted the formation of a
group of young children's book
illustrators called Ang Ilustrador
ng Kabataan (Ang INK).

All in all, he made over

500 cartoon characters,
twenty comic strips, six movies,
two murals, and 15,000
published pages in his 56 years
of professional cartooning career.
He believed in the far-reaching
role of cartoons in education and
value formation.

He died on June 24, 2002 when

he was 75.

Francisco Mañosa
2018
National Artist of the
Philippines for Architecture
Mañosa was born in Manila,
Philippines on 12 February 1931,
growing up in a genteel
neighborhood on Azcarraga
Street (later renamed Recto
Avenue). His parents were María
Tronqued, one of the early
actresses of Philippine Cinema,
and Manuel Mañosa Sr.,
a Harvard-educated sanitary
engineer who was director of
the Metropolitan Waterworks and
Sewerage System from 1947 to
1955.
I realized that through our
parents command to take this
kindof course that they want us
to take, it can be the reason for
us to help us regarding to our
future career just like what
happen to Mr. Mañosa. Just like
in my situation, which I hope I
can grow in this field of
accouting.

Nicknamed "Bobby" in the

American-inspired fashion of the
era, he played jazz piano and
initially wanted a career in music,
but studied architecture at
the University of Santo Tomas on
the insistence of his father.

By the 2010s, Mañosa was a

retired but decorated architect.
His three children all work for the
family company, Mañosa &
Company. Isabel ("Bambi"), the
eldest and only daughter, is the
head of the interior design
department, as well as a director
of Tukod Foundation, a
foundation of the Mañosa Group
which advocates the
advancement of Filipino design,
art and aesthetics. Francisco Jr.
("Dino") acts as CEO of the entire
Mañosa Group, and is the
founder and CEO of Mañosa
Properties. Francisco's youngest
son, Angelo ("Gelo"), carries on
his father's architectural legacy
as the CEO of Mañosa &
Company.

While not working on his projects

for the company, Mañosa was
also part of the jazz band The
Executive Band. He played piano
for the band.
In 2012, Mañosa fell and cracked
two vertebrae which had to be
fused in order to heal. He also
needed heart bypass surgery in
order to repair a life-threatening
ventricular blockage.