Artwork by Juan Cabaluna. Photo by: Noah Paylaga
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By: Noah Paylaga
(Arts Promoter/Coordinator for Bukidnon artists in CDO)
THE “MENSAHE GIKAN SA BUGTA: Kinaiyahan, Kultura, ug Kalinaw” simply means a Message From The Earth: Nature, Culture, and Peace. The word “bugta” is a Bukidnon word which means soil. The “Mensahe Gikan Sa Bugta” is a group of visual arts in ‘soil‘ paintings exhibit series by the Bukidnon artists, like in Cagayan de Oro City and Davao City, with the themes – “nature”, “culture”, and “peace”.
The participating Bukidnon artists with CDO based artists. From left to right: Chong Tecson, Nicolas Aca, Raul Bendit, Noah Paylaga, Juan Cabaluna, and Joey Hilario.
(Photo courtesy of Noah Paylaga.)
The participating artists are Raul Bendit, Juan Cabaluna, Joey Hilario, Aljade Roa, and Chong Tecson. The artists also have versatile talents and skills that they can perform with their native instruments like drum, flute, guitar and others, they can sing and dance, and they can make native and modern crafts.
Artwork by Juan Cabaluna.
Photo by: Noah Paylaga
This exhibit showcases from 31 May to 30 June 2018 in the Art Gallery at the Museum of Three Cultures of Capitol University (CU) in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. The venue of soil painting art exhibit is free viewing to the public and the museum building is free entrance. The artists’ artworks are for sale. The Bukidnon artists are inviting the public for their soil paintings exhibit.
An opening program was conducted on 31 May (Thursday) at 4:00 PM in the afternoon in the same venue.  During the program, Mr. Raul Bendit, a Talaandig tribe in Bukidnon and head of the artists, said that its purposes of their exhibit are to promote their native local talents and skills, and to educate the general public that they have their own existing tribal community and its cultural practices of the Talaandig, Higaoon and Bukidnon tribes in the province of Bukidnon despite the constant change of time.
Guest speaker Mr. Noah Paylaga, an environmentalist and artist, explained the theme of nature or environment that today’s problem centered on climatic changes happening globally, with disasters, and existing logging and mining. Through visual arts in painting as one of the methods, the people will educate the realities.
Artwork by Juan Cabaluna.
Artwork by Juan Cabaluna. Photo by: Noah Paylaga

In utilizing “soil” as a medium in painting on canvas or cloth produces a unique style, a non-traditional art (as compared to western orientation), and it’s an indigenous method though soil painting uses brushes, too. Other guests came like Nicolas Aca, a Resident Artist and Gallery Curator of CU – Museum of Three Cultures, who curated these artworks display, and Errol Balcos, a Member of National Commission for Culture and the Arts – Committee on Visual Art (NCCA-CVA) in Northern Mindanao, and a CdeO Arts Guild artist.

Artwork by Chong Tecson.
Artwork by Chong Tecson. Photo by: Noah Paylaga
This event is mainly sponsored by Capitol University – Museum of Three Cultures. The artists and organizers would like to thank their other sponsors, donors, the media, colleague artists, friends, and relatives.

Artwork by Raul Bendit.
Artwork by Raul Bendit. Photo by: Noah Paylaga
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