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SUPER INDAY ART PROJECT | 2014 - Present
SUPER INDAY ART PROJECT | 2014 - Present
Super Inday Art Project is a volunteer-run psychosocial support through transformational processes of artmaking and meaning-making co-founded by Rosa Zerrudo in 2014 that evolved from Freedom in Prison "Hilway Art Project." Super Inday art project supports heARTworks for Change as process-based & women-centered psychosocial caregiving through expressive multi-arts, celebrating “SUPER INDAY” beyond bars. What started as Freedom in Prison (Hilway Art Project) gave birth to Super Inday Dolls Project, as psycho-social support evolved into a restorative cultural enterprise in collaboration with women/persons deprived of liberty (W/PDL) in Iloilo City in partnership with BJMP6 Iloilo City District Jail Female Dormitory. Part of the offshoot, Palangga Prison Art: Double/Triple Lockdown Showdown, continues to serve "indays inside" even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Super Inday Art started giving art workshops in Iloilo in 2012, then expanded to two more jail facilities where the hablon weaving was established in Pototan (2019) and Bacolod (2023).
Rosa co-curated and co-design culturaly rooted conceptualization, ideation, product development, production and social marketing as collaborative process with women artists behind bars for Super Indays Art and art exhibtions since 2014-2025.
INDAY DOLLS
Inday Dolls are soft sculpture, stories of objects, visual narratives of women artists mothering behind bars. The women express symbolic representation of their painful life stories creating new colors in their darkest times. Women earn as artists who continue to support their families as breadwinners while mothering behind bars.
TAGU-ANGKAN “ALTAR NI INDAY”
Altar ni Inday or “Altar of Inday” is a juxtaposition of several elements such as the macramé altar installation, beaded hammock of dreams and a beautifully handmade crochet flowers, herbs and medicinal plants, wings, and inday dolls made by the women artists of Iloilo City District Jail – Female Dormitory resembling the “woman” – woman of resilience – surrounded by beads of the virgin mother Mary, colorful crocheted flowers and sacred leaves, eternal flowers and vines. The altar bows to the each sacred woman whether scarred as mother (nanay), suffered as a sister (ate), neglected as a grandmother (lola), deprived as an aunt (tita) and isolated as a friend (kaibigan). In celebration of the woman deity, this altar was created to express our gratitude and deepen appreciation towards all womynkind.
Super Inday Art has been exhibited, presented, recognized with support from partner organizations:
Anthill Fabric Gallery in Cebu City and Rockwell Nayon Natin Pop-up with pieces that celebrate resilience and creativity in 2024-2025.
Super Inday Art joins Sewing Hope in partnership with Stich 'n Time for an international quilt project, for all those who want to make the world know how you feel about democracy, freedom, and civil/human rights in 2025.
Creative Australia, in collaboration with Bang on Collective and Super Inday Prison Art Project for Children, Nature and Place as part of a Family Day event to Iloilo and Bacolod jails 2023
Presented our research project to Psychosocial caregiving. 28th annual Performance Studies International Conference, Uhambo Luyazilawula, Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg, South Africa 2023
Sewing Hope: Community Action for Frontliners and our Peoplefeaturing tapestry work of the Super Inday 2022-2024
Edified Energiser Grant 2022 Australia: Lead 5050 in Gender and Equity funding support for CoLove - Global Virtual Art Barter Residency Project
The Door Exhibition, Art Zoo Gwangju Korea and Imagine Peace Korea with support from Fair Life Center Hwasung South Korea 2022
Super Inday Art Exhibit at ILOMOCA Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art 2022
CoLove Byaneng Inday and After Care Project funded by South East Asia SEA Junction Thailand in partnership with CMB Foundation with social enterprise training in partnership with The Tagum City Council of Women Foundation, Inc.with accreditation from TESDA 2022
Palangga Prison Art - Triple Lockdown Showdown funded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in collaboration with University of San Agustin, Iloilo, and Iloilo City District Jail Female Dormitory 2022
Kalinga ng Sining - Palangga Barter Healing Art Fest funded by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in collaboration with University of San Agustin, Iloilo, and Iloilo City District Jail Female Dormitory 2022
Beyond Border (Artist in Residence and Resource Person) Asia Cultural Diversity International Forum, funded by Busan Cultural Foundation, South Korea
Super Inday, Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art 2022
Lin-ay to Hangaway - University of the Philippines Visayas 2022
Timaplada: The Art of Ilonggo Cuisine, Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art, Iloilo, Philippines 2021
Super Inday: Sakdag Wellness Art Exhibit, The Negros Museum, Bacolod, Philippines 2021
Bayaning Inday; Ilongga Artists Mothering Behind Bars, The NCCA Gallery, The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines 2019
Freedom in prison introduced Inday Dolls Project, which initially received a professorial research grant from the University of San Agustin as an outreach research and service learning program in collaboration with Fine Arts Major Organization faculty and students (2014-2018) while she served as Assistant Professor at the University of San Agustin Iloilo. In 2016, the Freedom in Prison Project won a competitive grant funded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. In 2019, the project was funded by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).
Inday Dolls project was awarded as Top 20 Grantee around Southeast Asia by the US Embassy YSEALI US Mission for the ASEAN as an initiative by Fine Arts Major Organization - FAMO. The collaborators with Bayaning Inday Project, FAMO, also joined the boot camp with BPI Sinag Accelerate with the Inday Dolls project awarded as part of Top 20 among the best practices around the country. During pandemic, Palangga Barter Healing Art launched double and triple lockdown showdown funded by the Kalinga ng Sining CCP. Currently, the CoLove project is supported by SEA Junction Thailand and Imagine Peace Korea.
The project sparked convergence of Indays’ co-creation between artists and curators in a virtual artists residency set-up through Zoom interactive “bARTer” workshops, art exhibition, and healing circles, which started a new phase during COVID-19 pandemic as Palangga bARTer beyond prison walls. The prison becomes a healing experience when artists' respond to crisis, providing creative mental and heart space, especially in the darkest of times.
Super Inday CoLove established Hablon weaving and design Training for WDL in BJMP Nanga, Pototan, Iloilo, in 2019, and in Metro Bacolod District Jail Female Dormitory in 2023. The hablon training was conducted by a master weaver from Miag-ao, Criselda Fagarita, and the sewing workshop by Pacita Mitra Recalb. Super Inday Colove embarks on Community Design Thinking - Sister Brands, developing their own brands: Im-makers, Threadliners, and Handumanan Arts in three jails
Inday Hablon Freedom Weaves - a restorative recovery process during COVID-19 Pandemic expanded with support from Edified Energiser Grant 2020 and Lead 5050, in partnership with BJMP Iloilo District Jail Female Dormitory, Pototan.
A new partnership with Sewing Hope founded by Amihan Abueva supported the hablon weaving project with collaboration project for the UN Women tapestry and Stitch-in-Time.
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