EP31: Art & Healing in Dr. Joven Cuanang's Pintô Art Museum | St. Luke's, Saling Pusa, Sampayan

These words of Dr. Joven Cuanang may strike the artist as prophetic or a proffered false hope. The good doctor, however, speaks from experience. He built the now precious and priceless Pinto Museum collection from the works of artists once ignored, rejected, and dismissed by commercial galleries. Indeed, Dr Cuanang had the innovative idea of just hanging and displaying their unframed works on a clothesline. Thus, the show was called “Sampayan.” He was, too, these artists’ primary patron, purchasing their works when other collectors looked down their noses at their works. Today, the Filipino public looks up to them with pride, inspired by their talent and tenacity.
In this video, Dr. Cuanang shares the history of the Pintô Art Museum and the works of artists whom he shepherded into the limelight. His words are truly prophetic.

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