A Glimpse of UPV Cebu College's Artistic Enterprise

A Glimpse of UPV Cebu College's Artistic Enterprise

The PCCA Arts Quarterly takes a look at the activities under the Fine Arts Program of the University of the Philippines Visayas, Cebu College (UPVCC) in this issue. The José T. Joya Awards and Competition (JACC), and Mindworks are two of the most important annual events organized by the Fine Arts Student Organization and the faculty of the Program. The José T. Joya Awards and Competition usually happens every February. It is a venue where the diverse artistic inclinations of the students are showcased. Mindworks, on the other hand, happens every October when students and faculty alike are given the opportunity to show their flair for performance art. The two have become the most awaited tradition in the Program.The three artists featured here are professors in the Fine Arts Program of UPVCC who have been actively participating in the aforementioned activities since they were undergraduates. Participants and competitors when they were undergraduates, they became one of the chief organizers of the activities when they joined the faculty. It is a remarkable way of giving back to one’s alma mater.

The Jose T. Joya Awards and Competition
by Raymund Fernandez

The 1st José T. Joya Awards and Competition (JTJAC) was held in 1977. It was a year after the founding of the University of the Philippines Visayas, Cebu College’s (UPVCC) Fine Arts Program – said to be the first formal fine arts school outside Luzon. The late Prof. José T. Joya, who was then the Dean of the UP College of Fine Arts in Diliman and instrumental in the founding of the program, came up with the Awards and Competition in support of the Program. The year 2001 marked the 25th year of the José T. Joya Awards and Competition. Full Story

Mindworks
by Raymund Fernandez

A class taught by Prof. Javy Villacin at the Fine Arts Program of UP Visayas, Cebu College (UPVCC) staged a series or performance art that turned into what is now called Mindworks. It was born with an affinity to the Dada movement and, considering the social environ when it happened, fed by a revolutionary spirit in response to the dictatorial regime of the Martial Law. It answered the need to be independent from the control of the conservative pedagogy of a faculty dominated by the influence of Fernando Amorsolo. The principles of chaos and anarchy espoused by Dada became a convenient cause to brandish against the old school and spur Mindworks onwards for a while. Full Story

Three Cebuano Artists: Raymund Fernandez, J. Karl Roque and Javy Villacin
Professors at the University of the Philippines Visayas, Cebu College (UPVCC) Fine Arts Program, Raymund Fernandez, J. Karl Roque and Javy Villacin are also active exhibiting artists. They were participants of the José Joya Awards and Competition in their undergraduate years where Karl Roque was consistently awarded from 1979 to 1987. They were the people who practically put up the first Mindworks. Mindworks was born in the class where Raymund Fernandez was a student of Prof. Javy Villacin back in the early 80’s. Full Story

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