See Inside the Revelatory Retrospective for Filipino American Artist Pacita Abad
Pacita Abad with her trapunto painting Ati-Atihan, 1983. Photo courtesy of the Pacita Abad Art Estate. In 1970, 24-year-old Pacita Abad left her home in the Philippines, fleeing political persecution after leading a student protest against the Marcos regime. She was planning to study law in Spain. Instead, she wound up in San Francisco, an