Kublai Millan

[3][4] Kublai started his career when he made all the artworks both inside and outside of his family's hotel, Ponce Suites, in Davao City, which is managed by his mother.

It is his more recent and more colourful oeuvre of paintings (called "Kinublay" by writer Karlo Antonio Galay David[7]) that are more widely known.

The oeuvre draws stylistic and creative inspiration equally from both Mindanao's visual traditions and from foreign and contemporary influences (particularly the works Joan Miro and Abdulmari Imao).

Aside from making his artworks, Millan is also an active cultural mover in Mindanao, with years of engagement in various communities all over the island.

Collaborating with Datu Waway Saway, he played a key supporting role in developing Talaandig Soil Painting.

[9] Through the foundation he also organizes engagement initiatives with Mindanao's cultural communities, rebel returnees, farmers, fishermen, and other sectors outside the art scene, as well as conducting workshops and mentoring programs for the island's emerging artists.