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Abel Manalo

Abel Manalo is a San Francisco based artist whose primary mediums are oil, acrylic and mixed media. He created award winning traditional Christmas lanterns while in the Philippines. He has worked with different community projects including Bay Area Schools Filipino American Associations outreach programs in 1993 and as an arts and crafts instructor at Filipino American Arts Exposition’s Philippine Christmas Lanterns Making workshops at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 1994. He has exhibited his art with Artist Open Studio sponsored by ArtSpan since 1995 and his artwork is in various private collections. He continues to refine, pursue original and innovative aspect of his work and currently maintains an art studio at Hunters Point, the largest artists colony in the United States. .

Mercedes Cormier

Mercedes Cormier is a graphic artist and photographer who has shown her woodblock prints and photography in various art exhibits from Los Angeles to San Francisco. A natural explorer, she has photographed all over Southeast Asia; some of her subjects include the Angkor Wat Temples, the Batad Rice Terraces and the Mekong River. She has also worked as a travel writer for Phillipines-based travel channel Living Asia Channel documenting the Caraga Region of Eastern Mindanao. Last month, she exhibited from her "Wisdom†photographical series at the 2009 Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles Dio De Los Muertos Group Show. She continues to document the the everyday rhythms of San Francisco, its abandoned dilapidated buildings, sleepy Pacific coastline and everything else in between.

Carlo Ricafort

Carlo Ricafort Born in Quezon City, Philippines, Carlo Ricafort grew up in San Francisco Bay Area . In 2000, he received his B.F.A. in Pictorial Arts from San José State University and has exhibited at numerous galleries and cultural spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and in Manila Philippine. Ricafort has collaborated with the artist collective Kwatro-Kantos in organizing exhibits - one of which was recently at the Philippine Cultural Center. He draws inspiration from popular expressions found in art, current events as well as in music - namely hip-hop and jazz.