GAWAD SA MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN

• How many Individuals have received this distinction (1992) R.A. 7355 until 2012?

  12
• How Individuals have received this distinction (1992) R.A.7355 until 2024

  16
• GAWAD SA MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN (GAMABA) 


  This art recognizes the outstanding work of artists in the Philippines
• QUALIFICATIONS BY NCCA

  1. Technical and Creative Skill
  2. Artistic Quality
  3. Community Tradition
  4. Folk Art Tradition
  5. Character and Integrity
• (WEAVING) Lang Dulay

  • Started honing skills at a young age of 12.
  • She was famous for using traditional Filipino materials such as abaca fibers weaved into T'nalak cloth.
  • Through her weaving, Lang Dulay does what she can to keep her people’s traditions alive (Maricris Jan Tobias, NCCA)
• (Weaving) Salinta Monon

  • At 12 years old, she asked her mother to teach her the art of weaving.
  • She was known for the quality of her work and the intricates of her designs, with binuwaya (crocodile) being her favorite.
• (WEAVING) Darhata Sasabi 


  She was an acknowledged expert in weaving the Tausug head piece, pis syabit.
• (WEAVING) Haja Amina Appi


  Her colorful pandan mats, usually red, purple, and yellow but sometimes reaching up to eight colors, exhibit complex designs, symmetry, straight tabig (edge) and fine pandan strips.
• (WEAVING) Magdalena Gamayo

  • Ilocono Textile Weaver
  • She learned the art of weaving at the age of 16 from her aunt through an informal copying of patterns. When she was 19, her father gave her first loom which she used for 30 years.
• GAMABA AWARDEES WEAVING

  1. Lang Dulay
  2. Salinta Monon
  3. Darhata Sasabi
  4. Haja Amin Appi
  5. Magdalena Gamayo
• (LPA) Ginaw Bilog

  • What distinguishes the rich Mangyan literary tradition from others is the ambahan, a poetic literary form composed of seven-syllable lines used to convey messages through metaphors and images
• (LPA) Masino Intaray 

  • Musician andand Storyteller
  • He was a master bard of kulilal a high lyrical poem expressing passionate love. It is recited with the accompaniment of the kusyapi and pagang.
• (LPA) SAMAON SULIMAN 

  • Learning to play the kutyapi from his uncle when he was about 13 years old, he has since, at 35 become the most acclaimed kutyapi master and teacher of his instrument.
• (LPA) Along Saclag

  • Much of his energy is channeled towards different preservation efforts. He has for years urged the members of his community to preserve their artifacts and archaeological sites
  • To guarantee that his knowledge in the performing arts is passed on to others, he formed the Kalinga Budong Dance Troupe
• (LPA) Federico Caballero


  He became a GAMABA awardee for his mastery of the Sugidanon, a Central Panay epic, traditionally chanted while laying on a hammock.
• (LPA) UWANG AHADAS

  • Yakan Musician
  • The people of his community believe Uwang’s near- blindness is a form of retribution from the nature spirits that dwelled in Bohe Libaken, a brook near the place where he was born and where, as a child, he often bathed
• LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS GAMABA

  1. Ginaw Bilog
  2. Masino Intaray
  3. Samaon Suliman
  4. Along Saclog
  5. Federico Caballero
  6. Uwang Ahadas
• (PA) Eduardo Mutuc


  He dedicated his life to creating religious and secular art in silver, bronze, and wood.
• (PA) Teofilo Garcia

  • Each time Teofilo Garcia leaves his farm in San Quintin, Abra, he makes it a point to wear a tabungaw.
  • This made people take notice of his
  • unique, functional and elegant
  • headpiece that shields him from the
  • rain and the sun.
• PLASTIC ART

  1. Eduardo MutucMutuc
  2. Teofilo Garcia