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Tag: Yasmin Almonte

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    The agony and ecstasy of Yasmin Almonte

    By Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Oct 05, 2022 9:01 PM

    Photos courtesy of artist and Imahica Gallery If her oncologists and other medical specialists had their way, they would remove Yasmin “Jigs” Almonte’s remaining jaw and seal her mouth permanently shut. When she told this writer of the likelihood of this happening to prevent the further spread of her cancer, which people had thought was […]

    Yasmin Almonte

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    Yasmin Almonte bares thoughts, intentions

    By Elizabeth Lolarga. Photos courtesy of Sining Kamalig  |  Jan 18, 2018 3:09 PM

    For three years in a row already, painter-art educator-cancer survivor Yasmin Almonte has been holding solo exhibits in her birth month of January. It is her way of “expressing my gratitude for being here, being alive,” she said.

    Yasmin Almonte

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    Yasmin Almonte’s bed of flowers

    By ELIZABETH LOLARGA  |  Jan 14, 2017 11:50 AM

    Painter and art teacher Yasmin “Jigs” Almonte isn’t called a survivor by friends for nothing. She has gone past the pain of cancer that claimed part of her jaw and prevailed over other physical and psychological challenges.

    Yasmin Almonte

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    Yasmin Almonte’s bed of flowers

    Jan 14, 2017 12:09 AM

      By ELIZABETH LOLARGA Photos courtesy of the artist Painter and art teacher Yasmin “Jigs” Almonte isn’t called a survivor by friends for nothing. She has gone past the pain of cancer that claimed part of her jaw and prevailed over other physical and psychological challenges. If there’s a song to describe her, it may […]

    Yasmin Almonte

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