Imelda Cajipe-Endaya
Filipina artist
Imelda Cajipe-Endaya (born 16 September 1949) is a Filipino visual artist, curator, author, activist, and community leader. She is known for her printmaking, painting, mixed-media art, and installation art. She is also an author of various texts and books, as well as the co-founder of Kasibulan, an artist collective in the Philippines. She also initiated the Pananaw (Philippine Journal of Visual Arts), of which she was the first editor. Cajipe-Endaya has become a main figure Filipino feminist and national liberation movements and Philippine art. Her advocacy of women centers around Philippine history and culture. She is the first Filipina to be conferred as a National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts.
Early life and education
Cajipe-Endaya was born in Manila, Philippines. Her father, Dr. Pedro M. Cajipe, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March, while her mother, Felipa Baisas (a daughter of the noted scientist Francisco E. Baisas), was a pharmacist and chemistry teacher.
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