Women in Philippine Postage Stamps — Vanilla Arucan

​What does it mean it construct a history, trace a memory, and attend to the future? Vanilla Arucan is a designer & archivist-in-training drawn to form, mundanity, and color; her gatherings & assemblies of objects and figures, from stamps to flora, reveal the narratives hidden in the Filipino domestic.

​Vanilla will share an overview of her work at present, zooming in on her efforts for Women in Philippine Postage Stamps (WIPPS) by dissecting the coming-together of its visual elements while reflecting on how her role as archivist contextualizes the project and how archivism informs her design practice.

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About Vanilla Arucan

​Vanilla Arucan is a graphic designer and archivist-in-training based in Manila, Philippines. Her work is inspired by a deep love for color and informed by its history, a keen sense for trivia, and finding charm in mundane objects. Vanilla is currently working on her on-going research and poster project Color Story and archival efforts for Women in Philippine Postage Stamps (WIPPS).

​https://www.vanillaarucan.com/
​https://www.instagram.com/vanillazilla/

​​Event Details

​May 16 (Thursday) 9PM West Coast
May 17 (Friday) 12PM Noon Manila Time

​​Online on Zoom