2025 - 2026
Europe
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, a research institute within the University of Amsterdam, is dedicated to the critical and innovative study of culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. A seed grant from the Foundation supports the development of Voyages of Identity, a multidisciplinary research-based art project—led by Hangfeng Chen, a visual artist and filmmaker based in Shanghai and Amsterdam—exploring the intersections of Chinese heritage, African identity, global trade, and cultural exchange.
Support for a community-based process to plan and design a public art masterplan to interpret the significant stories of the historic sites of the Eng Family Homestead (one of the last remaining and most intact single-family homes in the Chinatown-International District in Seattle) and adjacent Canton Alley.
Support for a research and community-building project centered on facilitating relationships between multidisciplinary artists and history bearers (descendants, land stewards, family archivists and institutions). The research project will focus on 3 different themes: personal archives, family associations, the history of railroad construction and mining.
Initiating research into and creative exploration of the history of forced deportation of Chinese seamen in Liverpool