Baguio has prevalent issues that also reflect national concerns over environmental degradation, heavy vehicular traffic on the main thoroughfares and the felling not just of trees but of freedom-loving patriots, among others. The Unesco-declared Creative City of Folk Arts and Crafts is home to a teeming community of artists and artisans, they who can articulate these concerns in what they are doing.
In the exhibition “Interlinked,” ongoing at the mezzanine of the newly refurbished Baguio Convention Center until Dec. 15 (open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., except on Mondays), the community, made up of novice, midcareer and veteran artists, comes together to give what to curator Erlyn Ruth Alcantara…
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