Call for Entries: Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes for Art Criticism 2023

On the 10th year of the PKL Prizes for Art Criticism, we invite entries that expound on the theme “Risk.” Essays should be anchored as critiques about artists, art works, exhibitions, projects, or art events that reflect on risk, construed broadly. Risk calls to mind danger or peril. On the

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Call for Entries: Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes for Art Criticism 2022 [Deadline Extended!]

Deadline for entries has been extended until June 30, 2022! With the theme "Fresh Winds and New Light: Forecasting Change", the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes are open to essays that reflect on artworks, exhibitions, programs, projects, other creative expressions, and efforts that aim to imagine a better world.

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Call for Entries: Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes for Art Criticism 2022

With the theme "Fresh Winds and New Light: Forecasting Change", the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes are open to essays that reflect on artworks, exhibitions, programs, projects, other creative expressions, and efforts that aim to imagine a better world.

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Winners of the 2021 Ateneo Art Awards-Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes for Art Criticism

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s AAA-PKL Prizes for Art Criticism!  In case you missed the virtual awarding event last 15 September 2021, you may view the recording on the official Facebook page of the Ateneo Art Gallery and the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation, Inc.  To learn more about the writers and to read their

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Awarding Event: Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes for Art Criticism 2021

We invite you to watch the awarding event of the Ateneo Art Awards-Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes for Art Criticism on 15 September 2021, 4pm.

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Call for Entries: Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes for Art Criticism 2021

With the theme "Navigating Crisis: Arts and our Futures," the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes 2021 invite essay submissions that reflect on crisis.

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Call for Entries: AAG x KLFI Writing Prize

In solidarity with the Filipino community affected by COVID-19, the Ateneo Art Gallery in cooperation with the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation, Inc. has organized the AAG x KLFI Essay Writing Prize to support writers affected by the crisis.

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Cancellation of Ateneo Art Awards–PKL Prizes for Art Criticism 2020

The next season of Ateneo Art Awards will resume in 2021. Entries that were submitted earlier for the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism category will be considered for next year.

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Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes for Art Criticism Shortlist 2019

In line with the annual Purita Kalaw-Ledesma (PKL) Prizes for Art Criticism, the shortlisted writers were announced at the press luncheon last 17 July 2019 at the Grand Atrium, Shangri-La Plaza Mall. Artists who were shortlisted for the Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art were announced in the same event

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Call for Entries: 2019 Purita Kalaw Ledesma Prizes for Art Criticism

In partnership with Ateneo Art Gallery, KLFI is pleased to announce the initial list of exhibitions to be reviewed by writers interested in submitting entries for the 2019 Ateneo Art Awards-Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism.

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