Three thesis exhibitions by graduating students of the Studio Arts Program of the College of Communication, Art, and Design (CCAD) at University of the Philippines Cebu are now open to the public from May 22 to May 29, 2026 at The Kabilin Center.
Featuring DISKARGA by Van Gabud, a house is a home by Bea Dolloso, and little bird by Isabella Salas, the exhibitions showcase a year’s worth of artistic research, experimentation, and production developed under the Studio Fine Arts Program. The exhibitions are supported by partner institution The Kabilin Center.
Guided by SFA 199.2 Thesis Adviser and Program Coordinator Laya Boquiren Gonzales and SFA 195.2 Production Instructor Khriss Bajade, the exhibitions reflect diverse explorations of memory, labor, care, migration, and belonging through installation and mixed-media practices.
DISKARGA by Van Gabud
DISKARGA is an immersive, installation-centered body of work that explores weaving as both process and gesture. Drawing from experiences of labor, care, memory, and place, Gabud works primarily with bamboo strips and local materials to create woven spatial interventions that reshape and interrupt the surrounding environment.
Through repetitive acts of weaving, the exhibition encourages viewers not only to observe but also to participate in the process itself, foregrounding touch, materiality, and collective acts of making. Gabud is also a CVSC grantee.
a house is a home by Bea Dolloso
In a house is a home, Dolloso transforms the gallery into a suspended fabric house structure composed of fur, human hair, thread, and layered textiles. Rooted in the artist’s lifelong experiences of living alongside dogs and cats, the installation reflects on companionship, care, and the ways animals become integral members of the family.
The exhibition warmly welcomes visitors — including their furbabies, to experience the space together, extending the work’s themes of intimacy and shared domesticity beyond the gallery walls.
little bird by Isabella Salas
little bird is a deeply personal body of work reflecting on migration, distance, and emotional inheritance within a Filipino family. Through cyanotype, image transfer, and mixed-media processes, Salas revisits personal photographs and messages as fragile yet enduring traces of care, rupture, and longing.
Layering tactile imagery and archival fragments, the exhibition meditates on memory as something continuously carried across absence and separation.
The opening of the exhibitions was attended by parents, families, former teachers, batchmates, and friends who supported the artists throughout the production and ingress process. Studio Arts faculty members, CCAD faculty and staff, and the CCAD Dean also graced the event in support of the graduating artists.
The exhibitions likewise celebrate the graduating Studio Arts batch of 2026, collectively known as AkuliktiB, as they present the culmination of their artistic journeys to the public.
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A full article will be released featuring all of the thesis exhibitions from the Studio Arts program for the Batch 2026