28/02/2020
The Winding Road to Change - A memoir
About the Author:
Nelfa A. Querubin was born in Concepcion, Iloilo, Philippines in 1941. She is the seventh of thirteen children of Melquiades Longno Querubin and Natividad de la Pina Amante.
Querubin is an award –winning artist, in the Philippines and in the United States. She pioneered studio pottery in Iloilo at a time when clay was not accepted as a fine art medium. For her excellent artistic output in clay she was one of the recipients of the 1980 prestigious Thirteen Artists Award of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in recognition for her contribution to the indigenous movement in the Philippine contemporary art.
In 2013, the Ayala Museum with the Ayala Foundation honored Querubin by giving her a Retrospective Exhibition with a beautifully printed catalogue of her fine prints and ceramic art works.
Querubin had 20 solo exhibitions, including three retrospectives. She has widely participated in national and international exhibitions and also been featured in national and international publications. She has conducted workshops as a visiting artist in art centers in Colorado, and in Manila, and has served as a guest lecturer at various universities and art groups. She authored Clay and Woodfiring, Life with Clay, Peace and Joy, and co-published, A Passion for Clay, a coffee table book.
Her works are in the permanent collection of the Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Design Center Philippines, University of the Philippines (Visayas), Central Philippine University; as well as in private collection of prominent citizens of the Philippines, collectors from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the United States and in the Vance Kirkland Museum of Denver, Colorado.
Querubin lives with her husband at the foothills of Golden, Colorado, USA.
