Featured Group: Guni-guri Artists Collective

“HIMASA: Hiling ni Mariang Saliwa”
A Guni-guri art exhibit celebrating Women’s Month.
Photo Courtesy of: Guni-Guri Artists Collective

They say art imitates life, but for some artists, art is a medium that brings forth new life.

This is what Guni-guri Collective, a group of multimedia artists hailing from Lucena City and other neighboring towns, strongly believes in and promotes through their group activities.

Established in November 17, 2010, Guni-guri started with four passionate artists looking for a way to share and discover new artists and works of art. However, more than just founding a club where local artists can hang out together, they wanted a group of free-thinking artists who can use their art to encourage other people to venture beyond existing boundaries and pave the way for fresh or lesser known ideas to be introduced to the greater public’s consciousness.

They initially thought that this might prove to be a challenge in a small city where art galleries have been a rare sight up until recently, but to their relief and delight, that small city turned out to have its own breed of full-blooded artists and artists in the making for it didn’t take long for them to evolve from a four-man team to a fifty plus group with two student chapters at Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation – Lucena City and St. Anne College of the Pacific.


“Handog Ka-eskwela”
A community outreach program of Guni-guri Collective in cooperation with GABRIELA for the benefit of school children from Barangay Dalahican
Photo Courtesy of: Guni-Guri Artists Collective

Being mostly composed of visual artists, the group’s initial activities consisted of socially-charged art exhibitions, but as they gathered more manpower and resources, they expanded their activities to include outreach programs in underprivileged communities such as donation drives for children who have no school supplies, free mural painting for a public elementary school, relief operations for flood victims, and free workshops where members of the group as well as guest speakers invited from all over the country share their knowledge of their individual crafts to interested people.

Now on their second year as a group, Guni-guri is currently brewing a special project they intend to launch by December of the current year. They’re still very much in need of new and talented members who share their goals and interests, though, so if you are interested, you may visit their facebook fan page and send them a message expressing your desire to join.

Author: Lucenahin

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