Programs

Negros History Program

This program was initiated by the museum in order to help the children of Negros learn more about their local history since it is not taught in school.

Summer Arts Workshop

Since 1998, the museum offers courses on oil painting, water color, candle making, recycling, printmaking, bottle art, etc. This workshop is open to both children and adults. Materials are provided for by the museum.

Community Theater Program

To increase exposure of community theaters in Negros, the Foundation has encouraged theater performances for all theater groups and school-based drama guilds.

Staff Development Program

To increase the exposure and skills development of the staff of both museums, the Foundation has supported their training

Museum Programs

Culture and Arts Workshop (CAW) Series

CAW is a series of short and long term art workshops that cater to varied interests and preferences of varied audiences and age groups. The workshops are highlighted with an output such as exhibits and performances that present the work of its participants to an audience or a public.

Docent/Volunteer Program

The Negros Museum offers an “on the job training” in partnership with the Practicum Program of colleges and universities for graduating students. The Negros Cultural Foundation is currently developing a Museum Exchange Program, a month long immersion in the Negros Museum and Balay Negrense, geared to provide exposure to staff of newly established museums within the region.

Performance Series

The Performance Series presents live exhibits, intimate concerts, poetry reading, interactive performance art and theatre productions held within the premises of the Negros Museum and other possible spaces featuring affiliate art organizations, invited artists and local performers.

Audience Development Programs

Artists Development Programs

Artist Discovery Series

The Artist Discovery Series aims to provide opportunities for young potential artists toexhibit their work at the Negros Museum and to expose new works of young potential artists to the community.

The entrance alcove of the Negros Museum is reserved for the changing exhibit of the Artist Discovery Series and is open to all young/potential local/Negrense artists to display their work provided that artworks comply with the Negros Museum standard

Artists’s Wall/Art Encounter

The Artist Wall aims to provide a venue for local/Negrense artists to exhibit/consign their artworks for sale in the Negros Museum and to raise funds for the Museum through commission from artworks sold.

The Art Encounter is a weekly session where artists come together to interact, consult and create artworks which can then be included in the Artist Wall. The activity seeks to sustain local/Negrense artists through the advertisement and promotion of their works