Beijing based artist Weizhi Zhang captured various types of Beijing courtyard gates on his watercolour canvases. Beijing quadrangle courtyards are the most elaborate examples of Chinese vernacular dwelling. Their ethnological character and variations of style, along with their delicate but powerful decorative elements, are of significant historic value and cultural meaning. Since the late […]

Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver February 16 – March 1, 2009, free and open to public Curator: Sam Carter http://spiritofplace.ecuad.ca/ http://www.citizenvoices.gg.ca/en/blogs/rideau_hall/235 The Spirit of Place: Beijing-China Young Artists Exhibition was curated during the summer of 2008 from thousands of paintings created by young artists from all parts of China through […]

Bamboo Welcome Gates and mobile art studios will greet visitors to Chinatown and Zodiac Square. Visitors to the exhibitions will participate in happenings and make “Olympic Wishes”. Since the 2010 Olympics coincide with Asian New Year, the story of the “race” among the Asian zodiac creatures will be featured in displays of Asian folk art […]

Korean Cultural Properties Exhibition – Celebrating 40 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and Canada June 16-27, 2003, The Pendelum Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Please visit this link to go to the exhibition’s website. Brochures of this exhibition are available at CSAA’s office. Hosts: – Korean Foundation for Preservation of Cultural Properties – Canadian Society for […]