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MANY art lovers will be very eager
to view an art exhibit of black and white drawings by Cota Deles-Yabut,
Mentored by the Masters, Fernando Amorsolo and Guillermo Tolentino,
Cota, a graduate of the UP College of Fine Arts comments, Having
been trained by our Maestro(s), I was guided to view “drawings”
as an essence of art works. Hence my first solo art exhibit here in
the Philippines (after having lived in the US for 27 years), are
drawings. These metamorphose from what I see, straight to my mind,
my heart and senses and onto paper. Someday, I may use these
drawings as a a basis for future paintings.”
Among Cota’s
contemporaries during her academic training in UP were: Larry Alcala,
Katy Yatco-Bengzon, Tipin Rosales-Eleazar, Araceli Limcaco-Dans,
Teresita Francisco-Dichupa, Lucy Vergara-Fernando, Celia
Diaz-Laurel, Lina Pablo-de Joya, Corito Araneta-Kalaw, Pitoy Moreno
and Juvenal Sanso.
Cota Deles-Yabut
has exhibited in various groups exhibits here and abroad. Her most
recent exhibits in Anaheim and San Francisco, California, were sold
out.
Besides her
talent in the visual arts, Cota has directed several musicals in
Manila and the US. Her passion for the theater arts makes the PETA
(Philippine Educational Theater Association)Scholarship Fund for
Young Artists a natural choice as beneficiary of this exhibit.
Currently, she is also involved with the 12-year-old Tradicion
rondalla composed mostly of members of the UP Alumni Association,
Berkeley Chapter of Northern California.
Cota’s
exhibit will open formally on March 26, 2007, at the new PETA
Theater Center on Sunnyside Drive, New Manila, Quezon City.
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