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The current
President of the Solheim Foundation
 Since March
2007, Alfred Ferdinand Pawlik serves as president of the Foundation. He
received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Tübingen, Germany and
lectures about Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of the
Philippines, Archaeological Studies Program (ASP) since 1997. Since 2006,
he is a full-time faculty member of the ASP. His research is mainly on the
Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic of the Old World and on the
analysis of stone tools, especially with regards to functional
reconstructions.
The Founding President of the Solheim Foundation
  Cynthia Ongpin Valdes is a researcher, writer and editor. A Bachelor of
Arts graduate of the University of the Philippines, she has been studying
oriental ceramics found in the Philippines and related subject matters for
more than 20 years.
She served as guest curator of an exhibition entitled:
“Pang-alay” (Ritual Pottery in Ancient Philippines) for Ayala Foundation,
Inc. and the Oriental Ceramic Society of the Philippines, Inc. She
produced an accompanying catalogue of the exhibition with the same title.
Valdes was
co-author and editor of a publication entitled “A Thousand Years of
Stoneware Jars in the Philippines.” She has managed several publications
for the OCSP; published articles in Arts of Asia, Ltd., Hong Kong, the
Philippine Daily Inquirer as well as academic papers in local and
international publications.
She has lectured
both in English and Filipino in various regions of the Philippines
including Butuan, Cebu, and Iloilo under the sponsorship of the National
Museum, the Oriental Ceramic Society of the Philippines, Inc. and Rotary
International. She has been invited as lecturer by ceramic societies in
Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong as well as participated in an international
symposium as lecturer and discussant on the uses of ceramics in religious
ritual at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
Cynthia Valdes is
founding
president of the W.G. Solheim II Foundation for Philippine Archaeology,
Inc. (Solheim Foundation). As member of the Board of Trustees of the
Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc. (MFPI) and a former president
of the OCSP, she remains active in ceramic studies and museum work.
Online articles
from Cynthia Valdes:
Ceramics
Workshop
Ceramics as Artifacts
The Guthe Collection
The Bin Thuan Shipwreck
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