You can help by donating to the Don Salubayba Endowment Fund.

Every one million pesos we raise for this endowment fund guarantees the publication and donation of at least 1,000 copies of our children's books each year, every year, in perpetuity. For more information, please email info@canvas.ph.

Don Salubayba was one of the artists who worked with CANVAS almost from the very beginning.

A Thirteen Artists Awardee of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2009, Don participated in numerous CANVAS exhibitions and projects, including being the artist for our children's book, "Tahan Na, Tahanan," by Maria Isabel Alarilla, and as a speaker at TEDxDiliman. He passed away suddenly in 2014 due to a burst aneurysm.

Creative, supremely talented across various genres and a natural born storyteller, Don was beloved and highly respected across the artist community. He was a graduate of the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) and the University of the Philippines Diliman where he majored in Fine Arts, and had done residencies in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and the US. He later on got involved in the art of shadow play and was a member of the Anino Shadowplay Collective and TuTok artists collective.

In 2015, on the occasion of our 10th Anniversary, and to honor his memory, we set up the Don Salubayba Bookgiving Endowment Fund.

Don Salubayba’s contest piece for the 6th Romeo Forbes Children’s Story Writing Contest in 2011. Incidentally, this was the year of Typhoon Ondoy, but he painted it before the typhoon. Tahan, na Tahanan emerged as the winning story that year, inspired by his artwork.