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Maureen Catbagan

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Queens Museum Jerome Fellow
NYSCA / NYFA Grantee

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Don’t Miss “Makibaka” at the Queens Museum! 🌟

Step into Makibaka 🇵🇭, a powerful exhibition by Abang-guard that celebrates the Filipino American legacy of solidarity, hope, community care, and labor empowerment. This thought-provoking exhibit by Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug sheds light on the inspiring stories and contributions of Filipino Americans throughout history. ✊

On view now at the @queensmuseum

Visit today and immerse yourself in a story of resilience and unity!

#Makibaka #QueensMuseum #FilipinoAmericanHeritage #CommunityCare #LaborEmpowerment #Solidarity #nyc #queens #nycfilipinos #Philippines #FilipinoAmerican #pinoypride #filipino #pinoy #AbangGuard #filipinoartist #filipinoart taken in Queens Museum by @moofro

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2 years ago

Art Seen - Abang-guard: Makibaka by @ellekaywei in @brooklynrail September issue✨

@queensmuseum @sarah_h_cho @fanhsnationalmuseum @fanhs_delano @fanhsmny @littlemanilastockton @singyatut 🙌🏽🙌🏽 taken in Queens Museum by @moofro

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My solo exhibit 𝘼𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙨á𝙮 (𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮) @flux_factory curated by Meghana Karnik @storefrontpsychic is currently on view through November 2 with ✨EXTENDED✨ gallery hours for the entire month—

📍 Flux IV (56-21 2nd Street, LIC)
💫Tuesday-Wednesday 2-6 PM
💫Friday, 2-6 PM
💫Saturday, Noon-6 PM
📆 By appointment

Alagaan ang Salaysáy honors Filipino nurses in Queens, Brooklyn, and New York City. Drawing on the migration story sparked by the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the 1970s nurse recruitment drives, Catbagan gathers oral histories from a community whose work has sustained the city’s healthcare system for decades. The words tita (aunt), ate (sister), and kuya (brother) recur—titles of care and respect that transcend bloodlines.

Visitors are invited to listen and read these stories vocally, transforming each into what Catbagan calls “a living monument of care.” In doing so, the exhibition turns listening into an act of devotion, infusing nurses’ labor into cultural memory.

Special thanks to @nyscouncilonthearts fellowship and the nurses who were generous with their stories.

Cathrine Solomon Williams @cathrinesol
Dexter Asido @project.dex
Potri Ranka Manis @potri_ranka_manis
Jun Rose Abella @juniebug15
Jeremy Enorme @i_am_jeremy

Nurse Group:
Gertrude Ariola @janegerty92025
Cleo Guballa
Liza Romero
Alexa Jude Tumulak
Gemma Tumulak taken in Long Island City, New York by @moofro

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a year ago

🌏
𝘓𝘐𝘝𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘖𝘕 𝘌𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘏
𝘠𝘌𝘈𝘏 𝘠𝘌𝘈𝘏 𝘠𝘌𝘈𝘏 𝘠𝘌𝘈𝘏
𝘓𝘐𝘍𝘌 𝘖𝘕 𝘌𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘏

Pic 1 cred: @chromadetic scanner obscura at the @flux_factory gala taken in EARTH by @moofro

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RU Open House Weekends

📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B, Governors Island @governorsisland
📅 August 15-16, 22-23, 29-30 and September 5-6, 12-13, 2026 | 11 am – 5 pm
✨ Visits also available by appointment (email info@residencyunlimited.org)

Come to visit the RU House on Governors Island (@governorsisland) and discover works realized in their studios by RU resident artists and local alumni Elisa Bertaglia (@bertagliaelisa), Maureen Catbagan (@moofro), Hayley Ferber (@hayleyferber), Chris Glabb (@chrisglabb), Gabriele Grones (@gabrielegrones), Olga Pastekova (@olga.pastekova), and Tharini Sankarasubramanian. These open studios are made possible as part of the 2026 Organizations in Residence program enabling RU presence on Colonels Row from May through October.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. In-kind support is provided by Materials for the Arts.

#ResidencyUnlimited #RUArtists #OpenHouse #GovernorsIsland by @moofro

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🎨 May Open Studios at the @residencyunlimited on @governorsisland
📍 RU House, Colonels Row, Building #404B
📅 Sunday May 31, 2025 | 12 - 5 PM

During my residency, I worked in conversation with Governors Island’s architecture, treating walls, surfaces, and unobserved details as collaborators rather than backdrops. Through rubbings, I approached the built environment as an archive, using touch and transfer to excavate traces of time embedded in the island’s structures.

I became especially drawn to cracks in walls. What first appeared as signs of wear gradually became something else: abstract entry points, portals, openings into imagined histories and alternative narratives. These fissures offered a way of thinking about architecture as porous and alive, shaped by cycles of occupation, weathering, repair, and transformation.

The works that emerged move between documentation and abstraction, collecting impressions of surfaces while remaining open to speculation. They are records of contact between body and site, past and present, material and memory.

Special thanks to @hayleyferber @residencyunlimited and @materialsforthearts taken in Governors Island by @moofro

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4 months ago

May Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island

🎨 Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island
📍 RU House, Colonels Row, Building #404B
📅 Sunday May 31, 2025 | 12 - 5 PM

Join us for a special Open Studios event featuring current and alumni RU artists: Maureen Catbagan (@moofro), Hayley Ferber (@hayleyferber), Erika Malzoni (@malzonierika), Paula Subercaseaux (@paulasubx) and Jana Zatvarnicka (@jana.zatvarnicka).

As part of the 2026 Organizations in Residence program, RU has a presence in Governors Island (@governorsisland) at the RU House at 404B Colonels Row from May through October, where RU artists and alums have studio spaces to develop new bodies of work across the 2026 season.

#ResidencyUnlimited #RUArtists #OpenStudios #GovernorsIslandArt by @moofro

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4 months ago

RU Workshop: Exquisite Landscape Mural Workshop

📅 Sunday, May 31, 2026 | 2:00-4:00 PM
📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B, Governors Island

Limited to spots available. 🔗RSVP and learn more from the link in bio!

The Exquisite Landscape mural workshop, led by Maureen Catbagan (@moofro) (2023 NYCBAR/RU alum), is based on the Surrealist game the Exquisite Corpse which utilizes collaborative drawing assemblage to create improvised fantastical compositions.

Participants are divided into groups to fill in sections of the mural based on continued lines from the previous group.

They are also given smaller sheets to practice with each other and take home.

No prior experience is necessary and all materials are provided.

#ResidencyUnlimited #RUWorkshop #ArtWorkshopNYC #GovernorsIsland ArtOnGovernorsIsland

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. by @moofro

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5 months ago

@lichtundfire OPENING RECEPTION
HABITAT
The Natural Home or Environment
Being Constitutes Consciousness II

Concept and Curation:
Priska Juschka | Director Lichtundfire

EXHIBITION DATES: MAY 2 - MAY 22 | 2026

OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 2 | 6-8 PM

Press Release:
Lichtundfire is pleased to announce and welcome all to the Opening Reception of HABITAT- The Natural Home or Environment, an exhibition in various media addressing the abundant habitats that coexist in accordance with a multitude of species, from microscopic to extraordinarily large, and across time, encompassing a species range from microbes to prehistoric animals and plants.

While it explores the many different habitats on Earth and, ultimately, extending into Space- it seeks to bring forth, both visually and conceptually, the countless possibilities and obstacles that lie within the constraints of these specific environments—with the intention of a deeper understanding of what defines us and all beings. (..)

LICHTUNDFIRE, 175 Rivington Street, NY NY 10002

Above pic: “Light Tunnels: Brooklyn Museum Stairwell, NY”, 2014-2015, Photograph, 16 x 20” framed

@lichtundfire #lichtundfire #gallery #exhibition #galleryopening #artist taken in Lichtundfire by @moofro

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Honored to present @everywomanbiennial @penandbrushnyc three manang (Tagalog for “sister”) time capsules bearing the names of Filipina women who stood at the frontlines of the Delano Grape Strike of 1965: Maria Rifo, Guadalupe Pena, and Esperanza Pulmano.

They fought for dignity, better working conditions, a living wage, and a retirement home for their older, single, unhoused brothers.

Mexican and Filipino women were the unsung heroes behind the United Farm Workers movement, less visible than their union brothers, yet essential as the backbone of collective organizing, care, and survival.

Each capsule holds goods from Little Manila, Woodside. Offerings that layer time itself: a gesture from the present to honor past elders, and seed future acts of remembrance.

Every Woman Biennial 2026: SPECTALiA
A show and a spell on building new worlds in troubled times.

📍 Pen + Brush 29 E 22nd Street, NYC 🗓 March 8 — April 11, 2026 🕰 Tuesday — Saturday · 11 AM — 6 PM
Check for events: @everywomanbiennial

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3 Capsules from Time Capsules for Manongs & Manangs, 2025
Time capsules, steel, suits, dresses, dry and canned goods purchased from Little Manila in Woodside, Queens

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The young Lorraine Agtang packing grapes. Courtesy of Lorraine Agtang

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Dolores Huerta. Smithsonian Archives taken in Pen + Brush by @moofro

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6 months ago

Closed MAKIBAKA @queensmuseum with @pilipinosofhunter @littlemanilastockton & friends 🥰✨

From the Delano Grape Strike to today — Filipino American labor power lives on. Standing with NYC nurses in the largest nurse strike in city history! Find ways to support our @nynurses ✊🏽❤️‍🩹✊🏽 taken in Queens Museum by @moofro

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8 months ago

@queensmuseum Presents: @abang_guard #Makibaka

Organized by @sarah_h_cho

#QueensMuseum #AbangGuard #contemporaryart #Art #YouAtQM @thecreativecamp @moofro @jevijoe #videoinstallation #sculpture #visualart #installationart #mixedmedia taken in Queens Museum by @moofro

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