The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) hosted a special conversation with Imelda Cajipe Endaya, the first woman to be named National Artist for Visual Arts, on 6 October 2026 at the UPCWGS Conference Room. Together with UP Department of Art Studies professors Flaudette May V. Datuin, Eloisa May P. Hernandez, and Ma. Eileen Legaspi Ramirez, Cajipe Endaya talked about her life, artworks, and advocacies.
A feminist, visual artist, activist, writer, and curator, Cajipe Endaya works primarily in printmaking, painting, and mixed media. She co-founded KASIBULAN (Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibol na Kamalayan), the Philippines’ first women’s visual and performing arts collective. She also initiated and served as the first editor of Pananaw: Philippine Journal of Visual Arts and was active in the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Committee on Visual Arts.
