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Visit the year-round Pop-up Art Show on display at the Steveston Museum and Post Office. Shop for creations by local artists, with a percentage of all sales going toward the Steveston Historical Society’s programs and events that support our community. For the latest information on featured artists, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

If you’re a local artist and would like to be considered for a future date please contact Lori Gelz at postoffice@historicsteveston.ca

Pop-up Art Show Artist for June 2023 – Dona Nabata

If you are walking down Moncton Street in June and see little bright pink heads in the window of the old Bank Managers Office at the Steveston Museum and Post Office, be sure to step inside and see the work of DONA NABATA. NABATA is a Sansei, or third generation Canadian Japanese. She is based on Granville Island and will be featured Pop Up Artist for the month of June inside the Steveston Museum & Post Office.

One room of the exhibition will house a very large, 4’ x 5’ painting based on the Tale of Genji, and also some smaller paintings done in oil on canvas. The main Post Office will feature many works inspired by old photographs found in Dona’s own Grandmother and Grandfather’s photo albums. Please enjoy the 12” x 12” mandalas on wood and portrait paintings of fishermen and Asian women.

The showcases will feature little vignettes on wood using original photographs, origami paper and found objects. These little dioramas celebrate the people in the photographs whose identity has been lost to us with the passage of time. No one who might remember them is still alive.

Dona will also show small works on paper featuring historical people and the Steveston waterfront. A post card titled: “Salmon Woman” which was made from a 4’ x 8’ woodblock print created in Steveston in September 2022 will be available for sale and can be mailed from the Post Office.

This pop-up ties together the historical nature of the Canadian Japanese diaspora in the Museum, with Nabata’s contemporary work in the Post Office, bringing the past into the present.

@donanabata
https://japanesecanadianartists.com/artist/dona-nabata/
Dona’s exhibition at the Richmond City Hall Galleria “Outside of History” ran from April – June 2022 https://www.richmondartgallery.org/outside-of-history

As part of this year’s in-person Songs in the Snow events, we’d like to share with you our virtual performance!

Artists:

• Jason Qiu
• Jill Raymond
• Michelle Carlisle
• Norine Braun
• Alice Fraser

We thank the following for their support: The City of Richmond The British Columbia Arts Council and the Province of British Columbia.

Please visit Steveston Museum and Post Office to view these binders full of historic information about Steveston, some of its noteworthy residents, and events over the years.

Each binder represents one year, beginning in 1976, with articles collected by Steveston resident Kathy Steves, from news clippings, society newsletters, and various other sources. They provide a glimpse of Steveston’s more recent past.

Thank you Kathy!

The binders will be rotated during the month of December and will be on display during the year at various times.

The Steveston Historical Society honoured Harold and Kathy Steves’ contribution to our Society on Saturday, November 26, immediately following our first Songs in the Snow event for 2022. The celebration included the unveiling of a portrait of Harold (painted by talented artist, Jennifer Heine and generously donated by Bob Ransford). The portrait will remain on display at the Steveston Museum & Post Office.

Thank you to Clare Scott for taking the photos of this event: