Maria Gracia A. Fulgencio
Vice- President

Ms. Fulgencio is the Art/HE and THE coordinator of St. Pedro Poveda College. She is currently completing her MS in Nutrition Program at the College of Home Economics in UP Diliman. She is an active member of different professional organizations: Nutritionist – Dietician’s Association of the Philippines, Phil. Art Educator’s Association, and Philippine Home Economics Association of State Colleges and Universities and an author of Home Economics series books: HELE 5 and THE IV.

Joyful, as she is fondly called by family and close friends has attended various national conventions, seminars, workshops and training sessions in food, nutrition, culinary, arts, crafts and personalized education. She has also facilitated various seminar- workshops, trainings, and livelihood projects in different schools, communities and parishes.

Joyful has been an active officer of PAEA since 2000.

Mary Ann Mendoza - Uy
Assistant to the
Vice- President

Graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City. She is founder of Munting Daliri Arts and Crafts. As founder, Mary Ann plans and organizes a yearly visual arts program for children and the youth, manage a core of artists and art teachers in the organization, coordinate and network with sponsors and tie-up venues for the art workshops, museum tours, field trips and annual art exhibits.

For her, visual art is not a leisure activity but a continuing process of learning, discovering, and healing for all children and the youth. This is the reason why she makes a developmental and holistic curriculum for each level of regular students and hold art classes for the whole year. She conducts art workshops in basic and advance art media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, construction, clay and other mixed media. She is also currently developing a creative art program for special and gifted children, children in conflict and out of school youth. She also believes that visual art is not only for the privileged few but, more so, for the many unprivileged ones.

Me-Ann, as she is fondly called by her family, close friends and some of her colleagues in her field had actively participated in workshops, seminars, and conventions of PAEA in the early years after she jbecame a member in the year 2000. Her affiliation from this organization made her more confident to become a full-fledged art educator. She actively participated her students to “Sining Bata” Art exhibitions and mentored her 3 students who joined and won ASEAN Art on Kindness year 2002. She also train and mentor her students who actively join Kanagawa-Japan Biennial Art Exhibition, a traveling exhibition.(Her students were prizewinners during 13th and 15th Kanagawa).

Before her path landed to education, she worked in several advertising agencies and became a lay out and graphic artist, soon promoted as an Art Director. But through the years, though, successful in her field, she realized that her passion is in teaching and events organizing for children.

She is also currently an NCR Representative of NCCA and presently the Secretary of the NCVA for the term 2007-2010.

She is currently working as Assistant Principal for Headway School for Giftedness

Me-An, is an efficient, responsible and hard working entrepreneur, social worker, educator and a budding artist whose heart is for the good of the many. She tries to balance her time in making her career and taking care of her family as well.

Laura R. Jugueta
Secretary

Ms. Laura Jugueta is the newest member of the PAEA family. Nicknamed Lala, she is, however very active in the promotion of arts, music and PE being the grade school performing arts coordinator (MAPE) of St. Theresa’s College, Quezon City for many years.

She is an author of a best selling grade school book SING SKETCH STRETCH Worktext Series (Grade Levels 3 & 4).

Lala finished her Bachelor of Elementary Education from St. Paul College, Bulacan. She has units in MA Child Study from the Philippine Normal University and is soon to finish her MA in Special Education from the De La Salle University, Manila.

She has done research projects for the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines, was a former principal of Maria Lena Buhay Memorial Foundation, an oral school for the hearing impaired. She started her teaching career as a Pre-School/Grade School Teacher at St. Paul College, Bulacan.

Lala has facilitated various seminars such as the Innovative Techniques in Teaching MAPE which she taught in other schools and places in the country. She has been recently added as one of the core facilitators of Faber-Castell.

Consolacion Azurin - Estarija
Treasurer

Ms. Ching Estarija graduated Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of the Holy Spirit and has completed her Master of Arts in Education from the University of the Philippines, Diliman,
Quezon City.

Ching has been a PAEA member since 1969 and has been active as part of the executive board since 2000. She is an art/culinary teacher and former academic coordinator of the Technology and Practical Arts, High School Department of La Salle Greenhills.

Ching had two woman shows, participated in several group shows in the different La Salle Schools, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, as part of the PAEA exhibition and at the different SM Malls entitled "Circles" this 2007. She has facilitated seminars/workshops in Art as a project of Faber Castell to reach as many children as possible to give opportunities for expression and communication. She has facilitated for PAEA, in the reach out activities of La Salle Green Hills to the different La Salle Schools in Iligan, Ozamis and Cebu. She has participated too, in the Birthday Club reach out to enable the participants to think of possible money generating projects to improve their living conditions, with limited resources.She is currently a book evaluator of DepEd, in the area of MAPEH.

She is a proponent of teaching Art for Pre-schoolers to improve learning and has shared this to pre-school teachers of Children's Talent Education Center as well as the integration of Art in the academic subjects for high school, to improve the academic achievement of students who have difficulty learning, specially in Math and Science. She has published her research on this topic in the Educational Forum, an educational publication for La Salle Teachers.

“Since the late 60’s, PAEA extended help to art teachers and enthusiasts to develop themselves and gain confidence in teaching art. Through the years, PAEA and its friends and colleagues in the field, continued to provide opportunities to teachers, students and other interested persons seminars, workshops and conventions from which classroom lessons became alive with learned concepts and activities. It is through PAEA that I was able to motivate students and make my lessons challenging and focused to them. Students’ intelligence and capacities have to be tapped properly so that they are able to connect lessons and see the whole picture not only in the classroom but in life as well.”

Rosel Raso Valenzuela
Liaison Officer
for Internal and External Affairs

Ms.ROSEL VALENZUELA holds an Associate in Arts degree from Maryknoll, Bachelor of Fine Arts major in Advertising Arts from University of Sto. Tomas, and MA units in Art Education from University of the Philippines. She retired after spending 35 years as art teacher, arts coordinator at Xavier School, Greenhills.

Ms. Valenzuela draws great inspiration from her involvement either as participant, facilitator, lecturer,
or demonstrator of various seminars, workshops and exhibits of PAEA and Kasibulan . She has also been active in the promotion of art through outreach activities in various parts of the country. Her special training included Curricula Development with a master German art educator in Goethe Institute, Accu-PBBY Children’s Book Production in UP, Animation workshop in UP and Chinese Painting in Chinese Art Center. She was a fellow for Developing Teaching Materials for Southeast Asia in Innotech, and delegate to INSEA World Congress/ 1993, Montreal Canada; 2000, Brisbane, Australia; 2001, Taiwan; 2002, New York.

She’s author, illustrator of PAEA art series Discovering Art 1 and cover designer for books and Life Today publication.

In 1990, Ms. Valenzuela was presented with the Fr. Pineau-Fr. Clifford Award, the highest faculty achievement award for teaching excellence given annually by Xavier School.