• A support system is needed for the arts to flourish

in a society. Art is produced and disseminated

through institutions and bodies which constitute
the support systems.
 Roles of the support system of the
arts in the PHILIPPINES

• -To educate the masses on the beauty of art

• - To educate students who want to learn and
develop their art skills.
• - For art restoration and conservation
• - To help artists get jobs in the various sectors
• Support system can be government-initiated,
community or municipality based, privately
supported, university oriented, artist run, or
internet-based. They can also be a combination of
these. Collective and artist organization are
composed of individual who share similar or related
practises.

• The following slides are some examples of the

Philippine arts support system
• The CCP is a government-owned and controlled
corporation (GOCC) that was established to
preserve, develop and promote arts and culture in
the Philippines. The CCP was established in the
Marcos Era, the year 1966, under Executive Order
No. 30.
Arts Council Cebu
• In 1960, Fe Sala Villarica
gathered a group of seven
Cebuano artists, one for
each of the seven arts, to
arouse the art consciousness
of Cebuanos.

• Forming this nucleus group were Ms. Villarica herself for

dance, Pilar Sala for music, Carmelo Tamayo for painting,
Gloria Escaño for drama, Molly Briones for literature,
Fidel Araneta for sculpture, and Jose Mercado for
architecture. This group was then known as the Arts of
Cebu.
 Continued :
Arts Council Cebu
• The Council organized the pioneering Festival of
the Arts in Cebu City, and steadily built its
reputation as the premier arts advocate
organization south of Manila by sponsoring the
performances of national and world-renowned
artists. The year 1975 saw the affirmation of the
Arts Council's cultural leadership when it was
cited by the Philippines Foundation, Inc. as a
Valuable Institution for developing programs and
scholarships in arts, culture and theater
 Anino
Shadowplay
Collective
• The Anino Shadowplay Collective, formed in 1996, is
a group of multimedia artists committed to
popularizing the art of shadowplay. Its members
come from diverse backgrounds; educators, cultural
workers, visual artists, musicians and theatre
practitioners are amongst its core members. It
undertakes live performances, exhibitions, video,
animation and workshops often in collaboration
with educational and art institutions and
occasionally with commercial establishments.
• The heart of ANINO’s narratives lies in Philippine
traditional art and literature, political history and
contemporary culture. Its aesthetic, like
Philippine culture itself, borrows from a wide
canvas, taking influence from Filipiniana to
universal pop imagery and “international”
experimental art. Questions of Filipino identity
are dealt with through projected images and
hybrid theatrical styles.
• Are groups that challenges our concepts of
theatre productions by mixing up performative
media and even trying out new modes of public
engagement.
 SOUTHERN TAGALOG
EXPOSURE

• An art group that find a common thread in the

member`s shared ideology. Pursuing progressive
as well as digital media, their materials is
configured towards promoting the rights of “
marginalized sectors and their struggle for social
justice to the statement from their website.
Institution and Schools offering focused
on Arts

• PHILIPPINE HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS

The school provide holistic training to selected high
school students who study various field in art with
free board and lodging with in the campus. They
major in Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Theatre Arts,
Dance, and Music.
On April 7, 1967, Cecile Guidote-
Alvarez established the Philippine
Educational Theater Association
(PETA) who meant the organization
to be a vehicle for Philippine
Theater to play a role in the
development of the country's
people and society.
Four years later in 1971, PETA was named
the UNESCO-International Theater Institute Center
in the Philippines. In the same year, coinciding with
the 400th foundation anniversary of Manila, PETA
organized the first Third World Theater Festival
 NATIONAL
MUSEUM

The National Museum of the Philippines is the repository and

guardian of the Philippines' natural and cultural heritage. As one
of the lead government cultural agencies, it is tasked to achieve
the goals of instilling cultural consciousness and a sense of pride
and nationalism among Filipino citizens through its activities
covering the sciences, education and culture.
• Established in 1901 as an ethnography and natural
history museum, and subsequently housed in its present
building which was designed in 1918 by the American
Architect, Daniel Burnham, the National Museum has
since then broadened its concerns in the arts and
sciences. Today, it occupies the main building (former Old
Congress Building) where the arts, natural sciences and
other support divisions are housed and the adjacent
former Finance building in the Agrifina Circle of Rizal Park
now called The National Museum of the Filipino People
where the Anthropology and Archaeology Divisions are
housed.
Provincial Art Group

• The Sining Kambayoka, founded in 1974, is the only

Filipino Muslim folk theater company in the country.
In its less than two decades of existence, it has
reaped prestigious awards and enthusiastic, critical
acclaim. It won the 1977 Aliw Awards for Most
Promising Cultural Troupe of the Philippines,
the 1977 Kalilangan Awards for the Best Cultural
Troupe of the Philippines, the 1978 Aliw Awards for
the Most Outstanding Theater Group of the
Philippines, and the 1981 Balagtas
Award for Filipino Drama.
• The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance
Company is the oldest dance company in the
Philippines. A multi-awarded company, both
nationally and internationally, Guillermo Gomez
Rivera has called it the "depository of almost all
Filipino dances, dress and songs."