Arts-Promotion-and-Preservation.docx

**Arts Promotion and Preservation** Art is a national heritage that is essential in building the nation and ensuring democracy. Paintings, sculptures, songs, dances, poetry, and other art forms remind people of the origins. **National Commission for Culture and the Arts** The NCCA is the country'...

**Arts Promotion and Preservation** Art is a national heritage that is essential in building the nation and ensuring democracy. Paintings, sculptures, songs, dances, poetry, and other art forms remind people of the origins. **National Commission for Culture and the Arts** The NCCA is the country's "overall policy making body, coordinating, and grants giving agency for the preservation, development, and promotion of the Philippine arts and culture". The creation of the NCCA serves as the state's initiative to promote and develop art and culture awareness in the country. **There are six arts and cultural government agencies under the NCCA:** 1\. **Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)** \- has been serving as the premier venue in the Philippines for culture and the arts. \- It has hosted numerous shows and exhibitions on both performance and visual arts. \- CCP is also responsible for bringing together the different arts from various regions to the entire country and the whole world. 2\. **National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)** \- Created with a vision of "a Filipino society with citizens informed of their history, who love their country and are proud of their cultural heritage." \- NHCP carries out its mandate by promoting Philippine history and cultural heritage through research, dissemination, conservation, and restoration of historical sites around the different regions of the country. 3\. **National Museum of the Philippines** \- It is the country's repository of archaeological artifacts, national treasures, the rare specimens found and produced in the country. \- The main task of this institution is to solicit, document, preserve, exhibit, and promote the natural and artificial wonders of the Philippines. \- The most valuable artwork housed in the National Museum is Juan Luna's opus, Spoliarium. It is the largest painting in the Philippines (4.22 meters x 7.675 meters); it is a winning masterpiece at the Expocion de Bellas Artes in Madrid. 4\. **National Library of the Philippines (NLP)** \- Established in 1901. \- "American Circulating Library" to serve as memorial to American servicemen who died in the Philippine soil. \- Has the mandate of serving as a "repository of the printed and recorded cultural heritage of the country and other intellectual literary and information sources." \- Access to these resources for our people's intellectual growth, citizenship building, lifelong learning and enlightenment. \- The NLP is home to rare books and documents such as "Acta de la Proclamation de la independencia del Pueblo Filipino and the manuscript of the trial of Andres Bonifacio. 5\. **The National Archives of the Philippines** \- It goes back to the Treaty of Paris in 1898 which "stipulated the relinquishment or cession of documents from Spanish to American authorities and provided for the preservation of documents." \- It has 400 documents from the Spanish era dating 1552-1900 and various records from the American period to the Republic. 6\. **Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF)** \- The KWF or the Commission on the Filipino Language was created via Republic Act No.7104: "Congress shall establish a national language commission composed of representatives of various regions and disciplines which shall undertake, coordinate and promote researches for the development, propagation and preservation of the Filipino and other Philippine languages. **The Artist and the Contemporary Arts** \- The vital role played by contemporary artist in "creating art that will contribute to social change by enlightening viewers and audiences about the nature and causes of the problems they face as Filipinos today." \- This enlightenment that gives the artist responsibility in their craft. \- It is a challenge to artist to create art that has social and political relevance, a kind of art that will contribute to an awareness of present realities and conditions of society. \- In 1972, the Philippines named its first national artist- world- class painter Fernando Amorsolo. The national artist award is a great honor given to the Filipino whose life and works have contributed to the advancement of the country's arts and letters. \- Presidential Proclamation No.1001, s.1972 created and established "The Award and Decoration of National Artist." This law enabled the government to give appropriate recognition and prestige of Filipinos who have distinguished themselves and made outstanding contributions to the Philippine arts and letters. **The qualifications for a Filipino to be nominated and selected are very stringent. Here are the qualifications for the National Artist award.** 1\. Living artist who are natural -- born Filipino citizens at the time of nomination, as well as those who died after the establishment of the award in 1972 but were Filipino citizens at the time of their death. Filipino citizenship, through dual citizenship status for at least the minimum period of Five years, shall be eligible for nomination. 2\. Artist who through the content and form of their works have contributed in building a Filipino sense of nationhood. 3\. Artist who have pioneered in a mode of creative expression or style , thus earning distinction making an impact on succeeding generations of artists. 4\. Artist who have created a substantial and significant body of works and / or consistently displayed excellence in the practice of their art form thus enriching artistic expression or style. 5\. Artist who enjoy broad acceptance through the following: 5.1 Prestigious national and/ or international recognition, such as the Gawad CCP para sa Sining, CCP Thirteen Artist Award, and NCCA Alab ng Haraya 5.2. Critical acclaim and /or reviews of their artworks 5.3. Respect and esteem from peers. According to NCCA, the national artist will be given the following: 1\. The rank and title of National Artist, as proclaimed by the President of the Philippines. 2\. The National Artist gold-plated medallion minted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and citation. 3\. Lifetime emolument and material and physical benefit and comparable in value to those received by the highest officers of the land such as the following: 3.1. A minimum cash award of two hundred thousand pesos (200,000.00) net of taxes for living awardees, and a minimum cash award of one hundred fifty thousand pesos (150,000.00), net taxes for posthumous awardees, payable to legal heir(s) 3.2. A minimum lifetime personal monthly stipend of thirty thousand pesos (30,000.00) 3.3. Life insurance coverage for awardees who are still insurable 3.4. A state funeral benefit not exceeding (500,000.00) **PHILIPPINE NATIONAL ARTISTS**