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Brenda Fajardo
Siya, Ikaw, At Ako (1/15) intaglio (etching), 59 x 78 cm, 1976
Brenda Fajardo (b. 1940, Manila) is a painter, printmaker, theater
set designer, art educator, scholar, and community organizer. She is
Professor Emerita at the Department of Art Studies in the University
of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman. She received her bachelor’s
degree in Agriculture from UP Los Banos in 1959 and her master’s
in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin in Madison
in 1967, where she wrote the thesis “A basis for art education in
the Philippines.” In the same year, with fellow artist and educator
Araceli Dans, she founded the Philippine Art Educators Association
(PAEA), which spearheaded training programs and resource
development for visual arts teachers in the country. In 1970, she
joined the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA)
as set designer and eventually became the curriculum head for its
workshops. She was one of the founding members of the Kasibulan
(Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibol na Kamalayan) in 1987.
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She received the Thirteen Artists grant from the Cultural Center of
the Philippines (CCP) in 1992 and the CCP Centennial Honors for
the Arts in 1999. She has been teaching with the UP Department
of Art Studies (formerly Department of Humanities [established
1959]) since 1976 and eventually became its Chairperson. She
was the curator of the UP Vargas Museum from 1995 to 2001.
She became the Vice-Chairperson of the National Commission for
Culture and the Arts Committee on Visual Arts (NCCA-CVA) in
1995 and its Chairperson in 1998. In 1996, as a member of NCCA-
CVA’s education subcommittee, she directed the 1st Sungdu-an, a
national travelling exhibition. She received her PhD in Philippine
Studies from UP in 1997. Throughout her career, she founded
other arts and cultural organizations such as the Baglan Art and
Culture Initiatives for Community Development in 1993 and the
Dalubhasan sa Sining at Kultura (DESK) in 2002.