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| Tana interviewed by Tina Feibel for Yoga Wholistics |
I met Tana through the Madrigal Center.
Madrigal Center was an art and community center in Alabang. It was built as a memorial center for Don Vicente Madrigal y Lopez and his wife Dona Susana Paterno de Madrigal. Their remains were kept in a mausoleum within the building. Designed and built by Architect Ramon Faustman, the Madrigal Center has an interesting building within a building architecture and the facade resembles the San Xavier del Bac mission house in Arizona. Because of the beautiful and huge building, Tana convinced her aunt, the late Chito Madrigal, to open it to the public as an art center. Tana was the first Curator and I was the fourth. The Madrigal Center became one of the best case studies of a sustainable self supporting art and community centers in the Philippines. When it closed the doors to the public in 2004 it returned to the Madrigal family the privacy needed for their memorial center. Tana's remains will now join the rest of the departed Madrigal family members in the private chapel.
Tana Madrigal Gelb died in the USA of breast cancer. Her family will bring her remains in the Philippines for a funeral mass to be held at the Madrigal Center in Ayala Alabang on Saturday, December 21 at 11 AM. May I invite the artists and the art community and friends to join us as we pay our last respect to Tana.
