Donated painting honours Filipino artist

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A painting created by an artist who once called Steinbach home was donated to the Mennonite Heritage Village.

In a ceremony coinciding with Manitoba Day, senior curator Garth Doerksen accepted the art piece from donors Gerry and Shirley Klassen. The painting, a winter scene of a windmill, was created by Juan Vicente Costales Artates, known in the Steinbach area as Vic Artates. Doerksen described him as a pioneer of sorts, as he was the first person born in the Philippines to call Steinbach home. He and his wife moved to Steinbach in 1967 where he became a lab technician at the Bethesda Hospital. He later moved into other work such as real estate and relocated to B.C. Artates, born in 1941, still lives in the Philippines.

GREG VANDERMEULEN THE CARILLON 

A painting created by an artist who once called Steinbach home was donated to the Mennonite Heritage Village. In a ceremony coinciding with Manitoba Day, senior curator Garth Doerksen accepted the art piece from donors Gerry and Shirley Klassen. The painting, a winter scene of a windmill, was created by Juan Vicente Costales Artates, known in the Steinbach area as Vic Artates. Doerksen described him as a pioneer of sorts, as he was the first person born in the Philippines to call Steinbach home. He and his wife moved to Steinbach in 1967 where he became a lab technician at the Bethesda Hospital. He later moved into other work such as real estate and relocated to B.C. Artates, born in 1941, still lives in the Philippines.
GREG VANDERMEULEN THE CARILLON A painting created by an artist who once called Steinbach home was donated to the Mennonite Heritage Village. In a ceremony coinciding with Manitoba Day, senior curator Garth Doerksen accepted the art piece from donors Gerry and Shirley Klassen. The painting, a winter scene of a windmill, was created by Juan Vicente Costales Artates, known in the Steinbach area as Vic Artates. Doerksen described him as a pioneer of sorts, as he was the first person born in the Philippines to call Steinbach home. He and his wife moved to Steinbach in 1967 where he became a lab technician at the Bethesda Hospital. He later moved into other work such as real estate and relocated to B.C. Artates, born in 1941, still lives in the Philippines.
GREG VANDERMEULEN THE CARILLON 

A painting created by an artist who once called Steinbach home was donated to the Mennonite Heritage Village. In a ceremony coinciding with Manitoba Day, senior curator Garth Doerksen accepted the art piece from donors Gerry and Shirley Klassen. The painting, a winter scene of a windmill, was created by Juan Vicente Costales Artates, known in the Steinbach area as Vic Artates. Doerksen described him as a pioneer of sorts, as he was the first person born in the Philippines to call Steinbach home. He and his wife moved to Steinbach in 1967 where he became a lab technician at the Bethesda Hospital. He later moved into other work such as real estate and relocated to B.C. Artates, born in 1941, still lives in the Philippines.
GREG VANDERMEULEN THE CARILLON A painting created by an artist who once called Steinbach home was donated to the Mennonite Heritage Village. In a ceremony coinciding with Manitoba Day, senior curator Garth Doerksen accepted the art piece from donors Gerry and Shirley Klassen. The painting, a winter scene of a windmill, was created by Juan Vicente Costales Artates, known in the Steinbach area as Vic Artates. Doerksen described him as a pioneer of sorts, as he was the first person born in the Philippines to call Steinbach home. He and his wife moved to Steinbach in 1967 where he became a lab technician at the Bethesda Hospital. He later moved into other work such as real estate and relocated to B.C. Artates, born in 1941, still lives in the Philippines.
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