Art Luzon 2026: Across Regions showcases hundreds of artists in Tarlac City

The Art Luzon 2026: Across Regions features around 400 artists, 800 crochet makers and weavers, and over 14 to 40+ exhibitors, galleries, and collectives as it runs from 10 to 18 October 2026 in Tarlac City, Tarlac.

According to the Tarlac Provincial Tourism Office, the said art exhibit is being held at the Bulwagang Kanlahi at Diwa ng Tarlac and Maria Cristina Park in Tarlac City, and is open from 8am to 6pm from 10 to 18 October 2026, with free admission.

Governor Christian Yap, Tarlac City Mayor Susan Yap, Board Member Pearl Pacada, and Melissa Yeung-Yap, were among the officials who led the opening ceremony of the art event on 10 October, with Department of Tourism Central Luzon Regional Director Richard Daenos as the guest of honor.

During his message, Governor Yap said, “We’ve start organizing this as provincial art fair, evolved into regional art fair, and now we are organizing as a whole of Luzon art fair.”

The annual event is one of the programs lined up by the Provincial Government of Tarlac to boost the art sector, not only in the province, but to the whole archipelago. This, he said, would provide a bigger platform for artists who want to show the public their creativity and show that art is for everybody.

Some of the highlights include gallery-based presentations, site-responsive bamboo public art installations (in partnership with Kawayan Collective), textile displays, and regional dialogues.

Meanwhile, joining the event are the artists from CASA San Miguel representing the Province of Zambales with their exhibit COUNTERCARTOGRAPHIES: RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS. The exhibit answers the question, “What happens when we map a place not through its boundaries, but through the lives, memories, and creative expressions of its people?”

Emerging from the Third Zambulat, the on-going ZAMBULAT IV (culminating with its first Biennale in Oct 2027) takes on this new interdisciplinary direction, bringing together art, culture, ecology, and the environment in an exploration of the histories and communities of Zambales.

Two central research threads anchor this exploration: the Capones Island Lighthouse, tracing maritime history and the changing relationship between people and the sea; and the life and art of Anita Magsaysay-Ho, connecting artistic expression with everyday life, labor, and the cultural landscape.

At the heart of the exhibition is the 1902 American edition of the 1875 Carta General del Archipiélago Filipino, one of the most detailed maps of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period, later reproduced for American colonial purposes.

Against this cartographic legacy, the exhibition offers another way of understanding Zambales—through its artists, musicians, craftspeople, fisherfolk, and cultural memory.

Featuring works by Nico Sepe, Elmer Borlongan, Carlo Gabuco, Mia Casal, William Matawaran, and Eunice Sanchez, alongside pottery, textiles, musical scores and archival materials from Casa San Miguel's three decades of community engagement. News clippings by journalist Joanna Aglibot document the lives of Zambales fisherfolk navigating disputed waters.

Curated by Ryan Alcarde and Franco Brobio, Countercartographies is more than a historical exhibition, it is an evolving inquiry into how geography, culture, ecology, and memory shape our understanding of place.

The newest batch of the Pundaquit Virtuosi also made a special appearance, providing a special performance during the opening day of the event.