FCS Tanggapan Gallery presents "Úgyon" by Margery Cercado
About this Event
The Filipino Community of Seattle and artist Margery Cercado invite you to ÚGYON (a Hiligaynon/Visayan word meaning cooperation, to unite, coming to clear understanding), a solo exhibition exploring how we relate to one another across distance, time, and generational shifts.
What does it mean to truly learn from one another across the Filipino diaspora? Living between places often brings complex disconnections—in language, values, and traditions—as we move from ancestral homelands to new environments. Úgyon creates a space to hold these complications gently through art.
This exhibition brings together brand-new ceramic sculptures and mixed-media textiles that reflect on memory, labor and the concept of diasporic longing—where "home" may not be static, but constantly woven and recreated, especially in community.
About the Featured Artworks
Úgyon invites visitors into a dialogue between earth, memory, and material:
- Ethereal Ceramic Figures: Born from daily gestural drawings, these spirit-like ceramic forms capture movement, presence, and ancestral memory.
- Feminine Vessel Sculptures: Hand-built ceramic vessels that explore what we hold—and cannot hold—physically, emotionally, and historically.
- Large-Scale Mixed-Media Textiles: Sweeping wall hangings woven from clay, found fabrics, and gold thread, honoring the unacknowledged labor of human hands and the threads that bind us to one another.
“On this journey of unpacking diaspora within my artistic practice, I consider the concept of ‘home’ as not a singular place, but perhaps instead who we develop into while navigating life and our surroundings.” — Margery Cercado
About the Artist
Margery Mae Bactol Cercado (b.1991) is a queer, second-generation Filipinx American mixed-media visual artist, potter, and storyteller based in Seattle, on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples, specifically the Duwamish.
Her parents immigrated to the United States from Capiz and Iloilo in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, her childhood was deeply shaped by return voyages to her family’s ancestral barangays—bordered by the Pacific Ocean on one side and lush rice paddies on the other.
Descended from Filipino farmers and fishermen, Margery’s process-oriented and craft-based practice uses natural and found materials—clay, textiles, stone, and metal—to examine identity, lineage, land environments and labor. She earned her MFA at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia (Lenapehoking) and works as a pottery instructor and studio assistant at Yu Tang Ceramics in the Fremont Neighborhood of Seattle as well as a teaching artist through the non-profit Path with Art.
Event Details & Attendance
· Location: Filipino Community of Seattle | 5740 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, WA
· Opening Reception: August 18, 2026 6:00-8:30pm
· Admission: Free and open to all ages. (Donations to support community arts programming welcome).
RSVP here: https://FCS-Tanggapan-Gallery-Ugyon.eventbrite.com
This exhibition is designed for a multigenerational audience—elders, families, youth, and art supporters are all warmly welcome to join in conversation, reflection, and community.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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