Jane Arrieta Ebarle

Jane Arrieta Ebarle is launching her career as an artist. A marketing practitioner for more than 12 years working for global brands such as Faber-Castell, Dong-A, Mattel toys, Esprit and others, Ms. Ebarle is embarking upon a new height in her life. An artist by passion, she has joined numerous group exhibits in venues such as UP Vargas Museum, UST Museum, Phil. Heart Center Gallery, GSIS Museum among others. She was one of the featured artists in the 100 Women Artists, a project of the National Committee on the Centennial of the Feminist Movement of the Philippines which was mounted at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2005. She was also a former officer of Kasibulan, a group of women artists.

Her work as a marketing person for Faber-Castell brought her to the realm of art education in the country. As her contribution to our art education program, Ms. Ebarle organized the Faber-Castell Creativity Academy which gives free art seminars to teachers and other individuals from diverse sectors to advance their art proficiency. She has also initiated the Faber-Castell Art Workshop which has toured the whole country extending free art lectures, workshops and art exhibits for children, schooled or unschooled. In 2004, Ms. Ebarle organized the 1st Faber-Castell Sining Award which honored and acknowledged the contributions of our art educators to our society. This year, the 2nd Faber-Castell Sining Award has been launched. This significant painting competition aims to support our visual artists by providing them a channel where they can express their artistic talents and inclinations.

Ms. Ebarle is the current president of Phil Art Educators Association where she is expected to help advance the art programs of our schools through various projects being implemented by her and the PAEA officers. As a former Project Director of PAEA, Ms. Ebarle organized the "Bakit Ang Galing Mo?" Creativity Seminar for the 2006 PAEA Annual Convention held at the GSIS Theater. She recently put together another Creativity Seminar entitled "PangNational Artist Ka Ba?" for the 2008 PAEA Annual Convention at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. This year, she will embark on another program entitled "Titser, Bawal Sumimangot sa Klasrum", a creativity seminar which is intended to draw out humor among the educators who may eventually consider the learned wit and techniques for class applications.

Ms. Ebarle took up units in B.S. in Architecture and completed her B.S. Fine Arts major in Advertising Arts at the University of Sto. Tomas. She is the founder of Birthday Club, an open ended group of women volunteers whose vocation is to share their talents and skills and celebrate their birthdays with underprivileged women. To prepare herself for this undertaking, she is currently taking up her Master of Arts in Women and Development at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.