ArtSpeak: “Putting in the work, art, and long routes: Purita Kalaw-Ledesma and Lydia Arguilla” with Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez

In celebration of International Women's Month, the Ateneo Art Gallery invites you to “Putting in the work, art, and long routes: ArtSpeak on Purita Kalaw-Ledesma and Lydia Arguilla,” an ArtSpeak session by Eileen Legaspi Ramirez on March 18 (Tuesday), 2:00 pm at the Ben Chan ArtSuite, 2F Ateneo Art Gallery, Soledad V Pangilinan Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University. 

This program is FREE and open to the public. 

Register and confirm your slot now at https://go.ateneo.net/ArtSpeakPKLxLA

In this ArtSpeak session, writer and researcher Eileen Legaspi Ramirez will discuss the impact of Purita Kalaw-Ledesma and Lydia Arguilla in the postwar Philippine art scene and beyond, particularly for their work in the Art Association of the Philippines and the Philippine Art Gallery, respectively, and how their contributions have shaped, and continue to shape, Philippine art history even as a far younger and possibly more deft generation of cultural workers charge the contested ecologies of the artworld.

This ArtSpeak program is organized in line with “A Synergy of Ventures: The Postwar Art Scene,” featuring the Fernando Zóbel donation, on view from 15 September 2024 to 12 July 2025 at the UGF Ateneo Art Gallery, Mr & Mrs Ching Tan Gallery and Mr & Mrs Chung Te Gallery, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University. To learn more about the exhibition, visit https://ateneoartgallery.com/exhibitions/a-synergy-of-ventures. 

For inquiries, email aag@ateneo.edu

ABOUT THE SPEAKER 

Eileen Legaspi Ramirez is an Associate Professor at the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman. As a writer-researcher, her research interests include attempts at variable forms of grassroots historiography and the reimagining and activation of contested space. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Social Development with research on the plight of labor and potencies of cultural work in the context of site-specific community art initiatives across the Philippines. In addition, she works across platforms and fields of criticism, art history, curation, and art education and serves as an editorial collective member of the Southeast of Now Editorial, an Advisory Board member of Asia Art Archive, and a Steering Committee member of Another Roadmap School.