Arts and Chinese Heritage

Vancouver Art Gallery

Grant period

2024 - 2026

Location

Canada

Since 2014 Vancouver Art Gallery has been developing its Institute of Asian Art, a platform for profiling and enhancing the understanding of modern and contemporary Asian art. The Foundation is supporting a research collaboration with Chinese Canadian artist Karen Tam which will look at early 20th Century Chinese cultural practitioners who travelled to North America.

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2022 - 2023

US

Wing Luke Museum

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.

 

2022 - 2023

US

The Chinese Culture Center San Francisco

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.

2023 - 2024

UK

New Earth Theatre

Initiating research into and creative exploration of the history of forced deportation of  Chinese seamen in Liverpool

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