2024 - 2026
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.
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