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Claiming Space: Voices for Urban Aboriginal Youth, a new art exhibit at the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA), showcases the work of young, indigenous artists who bravely seek not only to tell the truth about Canadian history, …
What do crushed coke cans and clay pigs have in common? A place in Gu Xiong’s exhibition titled Gu Xiong: A Journey Exposed, a series of installations at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.
Through their joint exhibition Attachments, showing at the Richmond Art Gallery from June 27 to Aug. 17, Lucie Chan and Marigold Santos raise discussions on identity, …
Play, Fall, Rest, Dance, an art installation currently running at Vancouver’s grunt gallery until July 5th, is poised to defy the notion that good art is necessarily the product of structured creative efforts of adults.
For local artist Todd Giihlgiigaa DeVries, his story is a web of many different experiences: a tumultuous childhood, the search for identity, reuniting with his birth mother, becoming a cedar weaver and finding a place to call home.
Tibetan monks will be creating a Sand Mandala at the Sacred Sands exhibit this June at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden under the supervision of Venerable Khenpo Sondam Rinpoche.
Salt gets sprinkled on food to add flavour, and on May 31 a dash of salt will be added to art in Randy Lee Cutler’s video screening of her Salt Walks project.
The Cuban Revolution marked a turning point in the nation’s history because of its efforts to improve the social inequalities within the country.
Saskia Jetten likes to make faces. A celebrated Dutch artist who recently immigrated to Vancouver, Jetten’s works are in the form of masks, clowns, comics, cartoons and puppets that dot the gallery space at the Burnaby Art Gallery (BAG) until June 22.
The ginseng root is considered a cultural delicacy in Chinese culture, but it is not commonly used in modern artwork. Evan Lee, a Vancouver based artist, combines images of Chinese migration to Canada and the plant root together in his new art exhibition Elders and Roots. The art exhibition, held at the Richmond Art Gallery…
Art is given a supportive hand as new immigrants find ways to express cultural identity. On May 3rd, the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) launched the Explore ASIAN festival. The festival started with an opening ceremony introducing the “So This Is Canada!” art exhibit. With approximately 200 people in attendance at the International Art…
Historical events, usually geared towards adults, can gain new interest from a younger generation of readers by telling the stories as graphic novels.
The power of stories to capture the imagination and bring people together spans all cultures.
