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- ↑ "Nelfa Querubin's Retrospective". The News Today. February 15, 2008.
- 1 2 "Pioneer clay artist Nelfa Querubin mounts homecoming exhibits at Liongoren, Ayala, Izukan". Philippine Daily Inquirer. April 15, 2013.
- ↑ ""Terrain": A Retrospective Show In Ceramics By Nelfa Querubin-Tompkins (Part 3)". Clay Ave. May 6, 2013.
- ↑ "Nelfa Querubin launches book, "A Passion for Clay"". Philippines Tatler. February 28, 2015.
- ↑ Querubin Tompkins, Nelfa (2012). Peace and Joy in My Real World. p. 49. ISBN 978-1449749019.
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