February is arguably the most exciting month for both art creators and patrons. Declared as the National Arts Month with the signing of Presidential Proclamation 683 in 1991, private and government agencies have since organized events to celebrate Filipinos’ artistic brilliance this time of the year.

But if the long list of art events this month — among them Art Fair PH, Fringe Manila, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Cultural Center of the Philippines’ endeavors and the numerous other theater productions — fail to satiate art enthusiasts, Bank of the Philippine Islands' (BPI) Foundation and Ayala Museum is taking the celebration a notch higher with an exhibit of not just one but 14 National Artists for Visual Arts.