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

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.