The RAF+CAA Community Art Program is an all-year-round open-to-proposals program of and for community art practices. This program provides personnel and intellectual support to artistic and/or cultural initiatives that are in line with RAF’s agenda. It provides assistance to artists, art groups/collectives, and/or local communities to develop projects or research proposals for government or corporate sponsored grants or programs. The program also sponsors community art practices that helps the organization realize its objectives or agenda. In short, the program aims to help artists and local communities realize their dream art or cultural project. In doing so, the program conducts and/or facilitates lectures, art workshops, dialogues, and trainings in connection to the project proposals of local artists and/or local communities.

RAF+CAA Community Art Program Entries

Art Talk: Proximity

Artists Talk with Nomar Miano, Ivy Marie Apa, Alfred Marasigan, and Soika Vomiter 8 March 2017 @ c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia

Dunia-Kalibutan

A Collective Community Exhibition with Chuah Shu Ruei 856 G Gallery, Mandaue City, Philippines Malaysian contemporary artist Chuah Shu Ruei holds a participative community art project that is an extension of her series of paper collages called ‘Dunia’ (The World), which dwells on themes of interconnection, dichotomies, perspectives, boundaries, transcendence, and change. The project intends to incorporate traditional heritage into contemporary art.

On Cebuano Art and Culture

Art Talk Creative Hub Gallery with Dr. Erlinda Alburo and Raymund Fernandez

Proximity

c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia Ivy Marie Apa – Nice Buenaventura – Alfred Marasigan – Nomar Miano – Gigi Ocampo – Soika Vomiter

Proximity is a group exhibition of works by contemporary Filipino artists from Manila and Cebu. The exhibition considers our relationship to place and landscape within the framework of what geographers have termed the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller and Urry 2006) – an increasingly mobile world of migration, social media, and accessible transport. Furthermore, rather than places acting as settings or surfaces upon which things and people move, the idea of approaching place as an ongoing process, as a verb – ‘placing’, ‘spacing’, ‘landscaping’ (Cresswell 2003), is proposed when grouping together works by artists from one country and presenting in another.

this/here

A Collective Community Exhibition with Chuah Shu Ruei 856 G Gallery, Mandaue City, Philippines

this/here is an exhibition by Australian artists Tania Smith and Kubota Fumikazu. The exhibition combines two seemingly incongruous practices—Tania Smith’s performative photographs and video exploring representations of women using costume and humor, and Kubota Fumikazu’s hard-edged, geometric compositions recalling the history of early 20th century abstraction.