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Artist – works in the fine arts including painting, illustration, and sculpture. They focus on
creating aesthetically pleasing works. All artists ' work aims to create an overall reaction from a
viewer.

 Developing ideas for a canvas or product

 Selecting a medium for a final work
 Collecting work for a portfolio Applying for grants for financial support
Artisans – craftsmen who work in textiles, pottery, glass, tables, room doors, etc. Usually, these
are manmade shapes. They focus on accessorizing functionality more than aesthetics. Artisans
are craftsmen who make practical artistic products.
 Using and mixing mediums like paint, metal, glass, or fabric
 Shaping, gluing, sewing, testing, and producing products.
 Displaying work at various sites including auctions, craft shows, or online markets.
 Estimating costs and material needs
Career Information art and performing arts:
 Actor: perform creative works written by playwrights or screenwriters for the
entertainment of others
 Singer/Musician: transform written music into song in front of an audience or inside a
recording studio. Musicians continually hone their skill by playing instruments, which
they often play in performances.
 Dancers: express art on stage in front of live audiences by movement or in front of a
camera for recorded sessions. Dancers perform during auditions, learn dance routines,
and adapt dance techniques during each performance.
 Choreographers: create dance routines for trained dancers to perform. Choreographers
almost always are dancers first, before they become a choreographer. Formal training and
enough amount of experience matter in choreography.
 Directors: work behind the scenes to bring a script or play into life. They take scripts and
plays and craft them into performances either for film, television, or on the stage, by
instructing actors on what they should do.
 Set and Exhibit Designers: study scripts to produce accurate sets for performance events
from plays to films. They discuss their set designs with directors and perform research to
produce accurate backgrounds.
 Costume Attendants: work in the performing arts in addressing those who perform.
They fit actors for costumes, help them dress and take care of the costumes for the actors.
They also assist with changes between the scenes.
 Performance Makeup Artists: Performance makeup artists use makeup to enhance the
appearance of actors and make them look more like their characters and better reflect the
scenes they are in.
Information about careers that involve art and creativity:
 Craft & Fine Artist – The most obvious career choice that involves art and creativity is
the role of a craft or fine artist. Regardless of the specific medium that artists work with
their job requires a significant amount of creativity to continue creating new pieces of art.
 Multimedia artist/animator – work with various software programs and technology to
create the graphics and visuals for many types of media, including video games, films,
and television shows.
 Art Director – responsible for the artistic and visual design and style of the product they
produce.
 Photographers – often seek out artistic and creative ways to capture their subjects and
the various events that they cover.
 Museum Curator – responsible for setting up, maintaining, and designing exhibits in a
museum. This includes acquiring new pieces of art and authenticating them.
 Performing arts Manager or Arts administrator – facilitates a creative organization
giving everything, it needs to function both as a business and as an artistic entity.
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Needed Skills & Qualifications of a Career in Art

 Organization
 Accounting
 The Law
 Fundraising
 Marketing
 Public Relations
 Flexibility
Protecting your Art: As an artist or a photographer, your most valuable assets are your
creations. An artist's work can end up on someone else's product, marketing piece, or website,
without the artist's permission and without the artist ever earning a royalty.
Copyright – a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as
an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression.
 It protects the expression of an idea. Ideas may be expressed in artistic forms such as
photographs, songs, poems, sculptures, and paintings.
 It gives the author or artist the exclusive right to copy, distribute, publicly perform, and
make derivative works from the protected work. Copyrights are owned by the creator of
the work and not by the person who commissioned the work.
Steps to protect your art:
1. simply sign your painting or add a copyright notice to it. A copyright notice should look
like this: © 2004 Maria Crimi Speth
2. Register the copyright with the Library of Congress. The benefits of copyright
registration are that (1) it can be used to prove ownership; (2) you cannot file your
lawsuit until your copyright is registered; (3) if you register before an infringement, you
can recover your attorney fees if you win a lawsuit; and (4) if you register before an
infringement, you can recover up to $100,000 per violation without proving actual
damages
National and GAMABA Artists
Award – something that is conferred or bestowed especially based on merit or need.
In the case of artists and artisans, they are qualified of being awarded because of the
number of years they practice their craft; likewise, they also provided jobs to others and have
proven their sense of nationalism translated into noble and tangible action. In giving the award,
there are two aspects of reputation that we need to consider: recognition and renown.
Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan – Philippine Congress passed Republic Act No. 7355 a.k.a.
Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan or the National Living Treasures Awards. The National
Commission for Culture and the Arts is the implementing agency of the said law.
GAMABA Awardees
 Ginaw Bilo: He hails from Mansalay, Mindoro. He's an expert in Ambahan poetry. He
made sure to spread it to his community in order to preserve their culture specifically the
Hanunoo Mangyan language.
 Masino Intaray: a musician and storyteller who hails from Brookes Point, Palawan. He
is not only well-versed in the instruments and traditions of the basal, kulilal and bagit but
also plays the aroding and babarak and above all is a prolific and pre-eminent epic
chanter and storyteller. He accepted the award last 1993.
 Samaon Sulaiman: a musician who came from Mamasapano, Maguindanao. He excels
in playing the kutyapi. His extensive repretoire of dinaladay, linapu, minuna, binalig and
other forms and styles interpreted with refinement and sensitivity of his instrument.
 Lang Dulay: a T'boli textile dream weaver who hails from Lake Sebu, South Cotabato.
She relieves the history of their tribe by means of weaving; her intricate design shows
such thing. She received the award last 1998.
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 Salinta Monon: a Tagabawa Bagobo textile weaver who came from Bansalan, Davao del
Sur. As she became an expert of weaving, she shared her knowledge to her fellow
Bagobo women so that their culture will be preserved.
 Alonzo Saclag: a musician and dancer who comes from Lubuagan, Kalinga. He teaches a
lot of people especially his fellow tribesmen in the performing arts so that the culture of
their ancestors will not be forgotten.
 Federico Caballero: an epic chanter from Calinog, Iloilo. He's well-versed with Sulod-
Bukidnon, one of the country's indigenous languages. His expertise is oral literature,
specifically the epics that talks about his people and their culture.
 Uwang Adhas: a mucisian of the Yakan Muslim tribe from Lamitan, Basilan. the
proliferation of Westernbased instruments did not discourage him from mastering the
Yakan musical instruments: kwintangan (for women) and agung (for men).
 Darwata Sawabi: a Tausug textile weaver from Parang, Sulu. Even though her place is
infamously known for terrorists, it did not hamper her to learn and master the art of
pissyabit weaving. She continously teaches her mastery of weaving to other people to
promote their culture.
 Eduardo Mutuc: a proficient metalsmith from Apalit, Pampanga. He is a specialist in
religious and secular art. Regardless of the low income that he received from his
profession he is contented because his passion is towards his work, not for money per se.
 Haja Amina Appi: a mat weaver of the Sama tribe who's from Tandubas, Tawi-Tawi.
She is respected throughout her community for her unique designs, the straightness of her
edging (tabig) and the fineness of her sasa and kima-kima.
 Teofilo Garcia: a casque maker who came from San Quinto, Abra. Even if there is no
celebrity endorser, Teofilo is his own endorser of the product that he is making -
tabungaw. Somehow, it has gotten the attention of the people around him and to those
who pass around. It made them realize that it's a better alternative than the conventional
umbrella or cap.
 Estelita Bantilan: an expert mat weaver from Upper Lasang, Malapatan, Sarangani. Her
instinct and talent paved the way for her creativity in mat weaving. Her expertise is
heavily sought by the people who wanted to emulate her.
 Magdalena Gamayo: an Ilocana textile weaver from Pinili, Ilocos Norte. She taugt
herself the traditional patterns of binakol, inuritan (geometric design), kusikos (spiral
forms like oranges) and sinan-sabong (flowers), which is the most challenging pattern.
Being self-taught, her own dedication to share her expertise has earned her an award.
 Ambalang Ausalin: a textile weaver who hails from Parangbasak, Lamitan City, Basila.
She possesses the complex knowledge of the entire weaving process, aware at the same
time of the cultural significance of each textile design of category.
 Yabing Masalon Dulo: An Ikat weaver from Landan, Polomolok, South Cotabato. Her
ikat-dyed fabrics with historical and cultural significance are sought after by people from
all walks of life. She's also an influential person because many are awed by her creativity
and wan to emulate her.
Order of the National Artists – It is a rank, a title and a wearable award that represents the
highest national recognition given to Filipinos who have made distinct contribution in the field of
arts and letters. Those who have been proclaimed National Artists are given a Grand Collar
symbolizing their status. Recipients of this Grand Collar make up the Order of the National
Artists.
It was established by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 1001, s. 1972, which created the
Award and Decoration of National Artist, "to give appropriate recognition and prestige to
Filipinos who have distinguished themselves and made outstanding contributions to Philippine
arts and letters, " and which posthumously conferred the award on the painter Fernando
Amorsolo, who had died earlier that year.
The Insignia of the Order of National Artists – composed of a Grand Collar featuring circular
links portraying the arts and an eight-pointed conventionalized sunburst suspended from a
sampaguita wreath in green and white enamel.