Art sale to benefit Hildawa

Various art works donated by the country’s leading visual artists are on sale at the Cultural Center of the Philippines gift shop until April 11. The proceeds of the sale will help cover the medical bills and funeral expenses of the late visual artist-architect Sid Gomez Hildawa, who died last March 30.

Friends of Sid Hildawa who lent support to the cause are: Ferdinand Doctolero, Jess Flores, Ben Cabrera, Jay Anthony Gonzales, Rita Badilla-Gudiño, Margaret Rodriguez, Dennis Gonzales, Elmer Borlongan, Noel Cuizon, Plet Bolipata, Raul Isidro, Sam Penaso, Jojo Austria, Lindslee, Claude Tayag, Arturo Luz, Ivi Cosio, Raul Piedra and David Justimbaste, among other artists.

Hildawa headed the CCP visual, literary and media arts department. A recipient of the 2007 Asian Cultural Council grant, he was likewise an architect, writer, poet and educator. He was a member of the United Architects of the Philippines and Art Association of the Philippines.

He was recognized twice by The Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. He was also a two-time recipient of the Philippine Free Press Literary Award for poetry; author of Regarding Space, published in 2005 by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts under the "Ubod" First Author Series; and a featured artist in several one-man exhibits.

He was a recipient of the CCP Thirteen Artists Award, a British Council fellow for art and architecture, and a poetry fellow at the UP National Writers’ Workshop and Iligan National Writers’ Workshop.

His remains lie at the Chapel Faith, Don Bosco Chapels, Makati City. Necrological services were held last Thursdayat the CCP main theater lobby.