Saturday is Patricia Perez’s day off, but instead of shopping or doing other weekend chores, Perez said she wanted to take the time to browse through a new art exhibit in Evanston featuring 48 Fili…
Geraldine Martinez-Benz founded Sinag, a 3-year-old Filipino-American art collective, and helped put together an exhibit at the Evanston Arts Center featuring 48 area Filipino-American artists. Saturday is Patricia Perez’s day off, but instead of shopping or doing other weekend chores, Perez said she wanted to take the time to browse through a new art exhibit in Evanston featuring 48 Filipino-American artists.
She said the exhibit is the biggest gathering of Filipino-American artists in one location in Chicagoland and celebrates Filipino heritage and honors Filipino healthcare workers against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and rise in Asian Hate Crimes. “During the pandemic their job became a matter of life and death. A lot them died because they were in the frontlines,” she said.
Viola Mayol places a pin on a piece of art marking her hometown in the Filipinas. Mayol has two pieces in the art exhibit at the Evanston Arts Center until May 25. The show is titled “Sinag” which translates as “ray of light,” said Geraldine Martinez-Benz the founder of Sinag, a 3-year-old Filipino-American art collective with more than 60 members.
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