Catriona Gray honored to mark 7th year as NCCA arts ambassador

January 27 ------ Catriona Gray is grateful to mark another year as the arts ambassador of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and is ready to continue what she started with the government agency.

Gray expressed her gratitude to the NCCA in an Instagram post on Sunday, January 25, sharing snippets of her recent appearance at the agency’s National Arts Month event in Intramuros.

“Honored to be serving my seventh year as @nccaofficial Arts Ambassador. To kick off National Arts Month. I had the opportunity to give a message at Centro de Turismo, Intramuros, about how our pursuit of art should never be motivated by the number of likes and engagement, but rather be driven by the desire to connect, to express, and to create,” she said.

The former beauty queen, who was a guest of honor at the NCCA’s National Arts Month kick-off event, spoke about the importance of celebrating one’s achievements as an artist, even if it wouldn’t be recognized by a lot of people. “Even if your work is not celebrated in social media, not shared by 100 people, the fact that you birthed and created something new is all that matters… My love for our arts and culture was not something I was born to, due to my mixed heritage. It was something that was grown, learned, and embodied,” she was quoted as saying.

Gray was appointed as the NCCA’s arts ambassador in 2020. The appointment came two years after she was crowned as the Philippines’ fourth Miss Universe titleholder. She is set to make her acting debut in the upcoming romance film “The Loved One,” which also stars Anne Curtis and Jericho Rosales.

Source: inquirer.net