Digos Visual Artist Guild-DVAG

PADIGOSAN 2025: LAYAG SUNDAYAG PAINTING CONTEST

DVAG artists joined the sail boat painting contest on July 19, 2025 at Dawis Digos City, Davao del Sur as part of the last day Padigosan Festival. This was the last day event of Digos City LGU administration conducted in the shoreline coastal area as one of Digos identity and demography features.

The contest was organized to exhibit teamwork as a collaborative efforts of craftsman and artistry by the unity of each registered groups. The artists consolidated their concepts into one to align their competitive festival’s theme, emphasizing the identical features of local tourism and agricultural known agricultural commodities of the city.

These artists were those who also participated the previous Padigosan painting and Layag Sail contest last year with unrelenting spirits to maintain the slot of being the active participants for every Barangay artistry events. Among the 18 Barangay representatives, some DVAG Admin represents their support and goal of winning aside of participating this festival, namely were the travel artist from Kiblawan, DVAG VP Shane Bryan Morabe Shane Bryan along with Jamenel Nomio Jamenel Mangolon, a resident of Barangay Dulangan representing together with other co-resident artist. Other admins who consistently participated and won the annual event were also Admin Reujay Montebon Reujay Banuelos Montebon and admin Aaron Kyle Albite with their co-resident artist whom represented also their Barangay Cogon. These three also took their sweet success in their humble award received as third placer of Bangka Design Contest aside of their sail boat painting contest entry representing their sworn Barangay again. These artistic men savored their momentous triumph during the award distribution with a smile from the heart of their humble fame. They celebrated their championship and honorable place with the plaque and monetary award that have been received at the actual venue with an exhilarating music-to-an-ear applause of the crowd who witnessed the contest awarding ceremony.

Along with this, it was a pride as well for the other talented participants to witness their co-artists gain a champion or a winning place. A motivation for them to keep trying and just enjoy the day of accomplishment, wishing to gain a placer award soon. With rapport and genuine support, each took the moment to capture photos with the other artists who were also a member of the same independent guild. Other Admins were artist Noela Lariosa Weleen Ivory Caroline and Admin Ivy Jane Bobilla Aybee Sordilla Bobila with the other co-resident artist representing Barangay Igpit; Admin Laramae Florentino Lara Florentino Jenny Maghanoy, Arts Kevin Yamomo with other Tudlok Artists whom also collaborated the Barangay event also representing Zone 1; and lastly was Admin CJ Delos Reyes Cj Delosreyes with other co-resident artists representing Barangay San Agustin.

Each of them took the chance to participate the long preparation up to the painting area inside the designated covered court to transform their idealized concepts into a visual arts form with an integrated message painted in one vibrant chromatic sail cloth. The process was long for them to bare, but all sweats and evident efforts were paid off the moment they finally took an undeniable euphoria to smile as they gaze and cheer to their satisfying painted sailcloth boats parading on the calm near sight sea horizon.

Afterwards, they took a pride of ownership rights as one of their momentous accomplishments of their public contest crafts through their individual luxury of captured photos for keeps — one of annual memories for this long awaited local celebration of talents this year.

Local contest was one of the unrelenting meet up opportunity for each random artists from various places to convene in one area and unleashed their passionate arts spirits to express their genuine styles of artistry. It’s more than just a competition, but mainly a life to always live on that marked their souls as artist identity wherever they are. With the burning artist flame inside of them, the surging and undying energy had compelled them to engage in this outside exposure opportunity to express each individual’s creativity in public had shaped their sworn will as a promising artist as they live on. Arts is life that will always emblem their spirit either they won or not, nevertheless, the memorable accomplishment as participant will forever be captured in their minds and hearts and marked a profile for their willful contribution in Philippines arts literature by means of this city’s local festival celebration.

Credits:
Written by: DVAG Admin Secretary
Photograph: Taken from Participants SocMedias, Ma’am Liza Cagas, and Padigosan page

DVAG Artists, one of the edge of Mindanao Art 2024

Arts exhibit on the famous and grand public mall in Davao City, SM Lanang. Exhibition titled "Art on the Edge" started on September 27 to October 6, 2024 which had been actively supported and participated by 400 diverse traditional visual artists of Mindanao and dazzled all other diverse arts enthusiasts across the region.

DVAG officers and admins not just participated but also won favored to some buyer's exceptional appreciation of their official sold-out paintings by means of artists and clients professional negotiation process. The painting sets were more like conceptualized through symbiotic and analogous center subjects, making each pair of canvas a mirrored pair half of each other when these were closely piled up in unison at the projected broad pile of walls in the exhibit area.

These two individuals were the fine-arts graduates namely: Zee Ravanes, the External President and Admin; Michael Jay Salcedo, one of the DVAG admin.

Along with the exposure platforms, numerous visual arts organizations and pages boosted their approval and support of these paintings until claimed and marked as sold. The achiever artists gained their end goal, mainly but not limited to common achievements were their sense of being seen, heard, and valued to the next level with also have high support of actualization towards other local artists in the region. Along with these influential motivation drivers of these two artists were their public exposure, sold-out painting pieces, and future clients prospect can have an assured consistency in their uniqueness in the visual arts industry.

Moreover, Chester Lance Buenavista, one of the admin and Tessa Marie Casonete Sedon, one of the admin, also took their chance to join the annual biggest art exhibit event of Mindanao. These were painted professionally and suitable inline to the theme, emanating and evoking an intense memories and real-life emotions as how subjects, color, elements, and compounds of the piece harmonically blends to each other, composing a classical gallery effects to the naked eyes with subjective touch to mankind life existence and evolution.

These two artists were local professed visual artists of Digos, imbued of passion with heart and soul as they marked a name to other visual arts groups in Digos City and other municipality, an exploration and home of passion where they venture opportunities for growth and exposure as the years ascended high.

These four artists displayed as one of the inspiration to some arts enthusiast of the groups they blend in, more possibly for other undiscovered artist and dreamer, or any aspiring artists to achieve the same level of achievement, in almost possible way. As enjoined artists of the Mindanao Arts, they are open of the leading model for others to achieve their dream, to be one of the exhibitor someday of another year of Mindanao Art event in the region.

Photo credits: Above-mentioned artists and SM
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Written by: DVAG Secretary and admin