Join us in the Studio to celebrate Ontario Culture Days with a drop-in family art making activity. Create a translucent lantern panel inspired by “Illuminating my Ancestors” by 2024 Creative In Residence Don Kwan!
No registration required. This is a free, all-ages activity. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information email family@oaggao.ca or call 613-233-8699 + 242.
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?
