MaArte expands to fund 9 grants

Annual fashion and crafts bazaar expands with 160 exhibitors

- Brontë H. Lacsamana

THE ANNUAL MaArte at The Pen is determined to be more than just a shopping event. The goal? To fund nine grants supporting various museum programs and projects nationwide.

The MaArte at The Pen bazaar, which offers locally made goods, will run from Aug. 7 to 10, Thursday to Sunday, across three floors of Makati’s The Peninsula Manila hotel.

Three of the grants the bazaar will fund fall under the National Museum of the Philippines. There will be grants for the architectural arts and built heritage division, the botany and national herbarium division, and the zoology division’s entomology section.

Six other organizations will benefit from the bazaar — HABI: The Philippine Textile Council, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, the Cordillera Textile Project, the Imelda Cajipe-Endaya retrospective, the Carlos “Botong” Francisco studio-museum in Angono, and the “Art Weave at the Museum” collection in the Cordillera region.