The Foundation is exploring new grantmaking in the arts to support the research and development of projects centered on telling the rich history of Chinese diasporas around the world.
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
Creating artistic renditions of Chinese diasporic experiences
Enabling artistic research into the historic experience of Chinese people in Australia from the 1850s Gold Rush era
Creating a network across academic institutions to engage with art and the history of Chinese immigration
Producing a podcast series, ‘Voicing the Archive’, with artists exploring narratives of Chinese immigration to the UK