For four years now, the Ateneo Alumni Association (AAA) has been at the forefront of raising funds for various social involvement concerns through the Ateneo Art Auction.
The first auction in 2008 featured works from the masters such as Amorsolo, Malang and Anita Magsaysay-Ho to name a few and several from the most sought after contemporary artists like MM Yu and Bembol dela Cruz. The proceeds helped build several houses for the AAA GK Community in Payatas.
In 2009, around 40 select pieces from almost 50 established (such as Ang Kiukok, Arturo Luz and Lao Lianben) and emerging artists (such as Ronald Ventura and Lynyrd Paras) were given to the highest bidders during the live auction. This allowed the Association to donate 1.2 million pesos to the Ateneo Scholarship Fund.
Last 2010, close to a 100 pieces were auctioned off to a growing and steady number of around 200 attendees and patrons of the Ateneo Art Auction. We again had works of the masters and of emerging artists auctioned off. The Association was able to raise 3.8 million pesos for scholarships to support deserving yet financially disadvantaged Ateneo college students under the Ateneo de Manila University’s School of Humanities.
This 2011, we are working again to raise more scholarship funds for students and to bring more recognition on the talent and works of our local artists and art industry. We are featuring more than 50 artists and will be displaying more than 70 selections of their combined art works this year.
The 2011 Ateneo Art Auction will be held on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at the Finale Art File located in La Fuerza Compound, 2241 Pasong Tamo, Makati City.
Preview and display of the artworks start on Thursday, September 29, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. also in Finale Art File.
These can also be viewed here in the Ateneo Art Auction website’s Art Gallery.
This is truly an excellent and wonderful opportunity to partner with us for a noble cause: we enable academically gifted but financially disadvantaged students to become future leaders in their respective fields.
