Join artist Don Kwan at a community event celebrating diversity and spotlighting the visual and performative power of the arts within rural communities.
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Don Kwan (he/him) is a queer third-generation Chinese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, whose work explores place, identity, representation and intergenerational memory-making across time. Reflecting upon modernist depictions of landscape in Canada, Kwan explores legacies of inclusion and exclusion, rooted in land-based settler colonialism. Whether landscape, abstraction, or portraiture, 20th-century Canadian modernism was founded at a time when discriminatory policies such as the Chinese Immigration Act and the Chinese Exclusion Act were in place. Through community outreach, project initiatives, festivals, workshops and his own family’s history of more than a century in Canada, Kwan considers the question: What does it look like to belong in the Canadian landscape?
