Tagum's Art Scene

Motorcycles pass by these street art in Rotary Park along Pioneer Avenue as two artists brave intermittent rainshowers  just to finish this work of art.

TAGUM CITY, DAVAO DEL NORTE—One could not easily ignore the larger-than-life street art that mushroomed this week in this city’s Rotary Park. Indigenous in nature, the mural paintings painted here resonate the city’s rich indigenous culture.

This is, of course, something worthy to blog since this goes to show that Tagum City has slowly bloomed into a melting pot of artists of different disciplines. But last Holy Week, I remembered how a noted artist here laments how lame the art scene in this bustling capital town of Davao del Norte—a thing they wanted to change. People’s appreciation in the arts is not evident, he said, except for the very few who bleeds art.