StoBoSa Hillside Homes Artwork

StoBoSa Hillside Homes Artworks is one of the new tourist attractions near Baguio City. Located along the main road of La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines. This can be considered a huge artwork with beautiful and colourful houses located on the Barangay Balili hillside. Inspired by Favela paintings in Brazil, with the idea of painting all the houses with different colours, "Valley of Col" is a great welcome for any visitors to come to La Trinidad City, Philippines.

Baguio Coloured Houses

Baguio Coloured Houses

"Valley of colours", officially known as the Stobosa Hillside Homes Artwork or the Colours of StoBoSa Hillside Homes Artwork, The Colours of Stobosa, is a community art created by Tam-Awan Village and is a well-known tourist attraction in La Trinidad, Benguet. The single artwork is composed of the paintwork from multiple houses.

The StoBoSa Hillside Home Artwork is a snapshot of the artwork. It is also known simply as the Colours of StoBoSa. "Stobosa", a combination of the names of three of the places where the artwork is located, is a portmanteau. These three locales sit in Barangay Balili.

This artwork was commissioned by the Rev-Bloom Urban Rehabilitation Tourism Campaign, a project that was conceptualised by the Department of Tourism Cordillera Administrative Region under Regional Director Venus Tan as well as the La Trinidad local government under Edna Tabanan.

The Tam-Awan Artist Village group of the Chanum Foundation was responsible for the design of the artwork. They were led by solar artist Jordan Mang-Osan and Nino Jose B. Selriosa, Ged Alangui, Clinton Aniversaryo, and Jenny Lorenzo. Gloria Agasen was the project coordinator.

Colours of StoBoSa

The project used a total of more than 180 houses, over 18 thousand square metres of land, more than 2,800 gallons of paint, 1,000 gallons of primer, and over 500 coloured gallons to complete this huge artwork. And a special thing, "the colour valley", is the result of the efforts of more than 500 individuals, including villagers, artists, students, local prayers, and many other volunteer organisations, who worked together for half a year and were chosen from many designs. Since the original area was a rich source of sunflowers, the main motif of the artwork was the sunflower. The design also includes rainbows.

The artwork was painted in February 2016. It was officially inaugurated on June 23, 2016. However, it was not expected to be finished until August 2016. The artwork was 80 per cent complete at the time it was unveiled.

The houses were painted by 520 residents and volunteers from the three sites. The training began in January 2016. After the colour was applied, the outlines were then applied. Davies Paints provided the paint, and other materials were donated by the local government. What does the paint used to cover 2,800 gallons cost? 2 million. The painting is expected to last five years. Retouching the work is scheduled for mid-2018.

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