Doors of Pinto Art Museum Part 4: Pinto Academy for Arts and Sciences for Healing and Wholeness

TEXT & PHOTO: Kaycie Gayle

Pinto Academy for Arts and Sciences for Healing and Wholeness

Upon descending on the wide concrete stairsteps following the downward slope of the landscape, I have seen two different routes leading to two different compounds. I opted to take the right route again and enter another white arched entrance where I was transported to a paved space with recurring white wrought iron garden sets chairs and daybeds and is also amidst side trees and gardens. As I continue striding I come across a stoneware of a man holding on a boulder as if climbing on a steep hill. A few more steps and I was already staring at the edifice of Pinto Academy for Arts and Sciences for Healing and Wholeness. This was said to be inspired by the belief that in earlier times, the arts have always played an integral part in the attainment of a well-lived life. Looking around, I have seen another spacious shady patio with brown cobbled grounds with a wall that has arched windows and is peppered with the wrought iron chairs and a four poster bed without a mattress. Moving on, I descended on the outdoor staircase leading down to a garden square with orderly landscaping with well-tended carabao grass and stylized plants. From the landing, one would appreciate the immaculate white walls of the structure, the green scenery of the garden and its clear blue skies backdrop. A perfect combination of nature and art in architecture that definitely produced a calm and refreshing atmosphere.

Arched entrance to Pinto Academy

Gateway to Pinto Academy

Paved space with wrought iron garden set

Seats available

Stoneware of a man holding on a bolder

A shady spot with day bed and chairs

Pinto Academy patio

Chairs and four-poster bed on the patio

Pinto Academy

Bell tower of Pinto Academy

Proceeding on the ground floor of the bell tower, I have seen a gallery of posters of classic local films printed in black and white. While across it is another gallery that contains boulders, rocks, and jars. Wondering what view to see upstairs I have climbed to see another roof deck. Up on it is an amphitheater which has a sloping design and inspired by the ancient Roman theaters with its components like the cavea, the vomitorium and the arena where three shrouded figures of women are placed on the center. Meanwhile climbing on its cavea has lead me to its vomitorium where I was able to enter another roof deck that offers a bird’s eye view of the garden square and patios below.

Tastefully designed cloister