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Engaging Artists in Community Program

Harvest Moon Parade
 Minoru Stories Postcard
 Great Blue Heron
Harvest Moon Festival
Marina Szijarto,
2016
 Minoru Stories,
Catrina Megumi Longmuir, 2017
 Great Blue Heron
Bryn Finer, Donald Gunn, 2018

The Engaging Artists in Community Program supports artists with socially oriented art practices who wish to work collaboratively within communities in Richmond. The program targets culturally diverse and multi-generational audiences and aims to foster cross-cultural exchange, inclusive community building and education on issues and topics of relevance to communities. 

Community-based artworks can express a shared goal or theme and provoke dialogue on ideas related to cultural identity, social history or the environment. Artist projects can leave a physical or social legacy for the community and may include, but is not limited to public performances, sculptures, participatory art installations, hands-on art activities, workshops, exhibitions, digital media based artwork and other socially engaged art forms. Projects commissioned from this program provide community participants with a greater sense of self, identity, community and place through art-making experiences. 

2020 Artist Projects
 Victory Gardens for Diversity: Recipes or Community-Based Ecological EngagementVictory Gardens Small
Lori Weidenhammer
This year-long artist residency project at Terra Nova Rural Park is led by artist Lori Weidenhammer and supported by Lois Klassen, Crystal Lee, Jenn Pearson, Catherine Shapiro and Lori Snyder.

This project is inspired by the historical WWII Victory Gardens movement and popular slogans such as: ‘grow your own, can your own’, ‘grow vitamins at your kitchen door’, ‘make-do and mend’, and ‘use it up, wear it out, make it do’. The artist collective will present a variety of public engagement events throughout 2020,PDF DocumentVictory Gardens Brochure 

For more information about the project, please visit: www.victorygardensfordiversity.blogspot.com.

Previous Engaging Artists in Community Projects

Join the Arts, Culture and Heritage Artist Directory to be updated on future artist calls, workshops, events and professional development opportunities.

For further questions, please contact publicart@richmond.ca

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