# Pop-up Art Show at the Steveston Museum and Post Office

- Link: https://historicsteveston.ca/news/pop-up-art-show-at-the-steveston-museum-and-post-office/
- Published: 2023-05-30T08:55:44-07:00
- Author: Sarah

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](https://www.facebook.com/historicsteveston/),
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/StevestonHS) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/historic.steveston/).

If you’re a local artist and would like to be considered for a future date please
contact Lori Gelz at [postoffice@historicsteveston.ca](https://historicsteveston.ca/news/pop-up-art-show-at-the-steveston-museum-and-post-office/postoffice@historicsteveston.ca)

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

![Dona crouches on the ground next to a large art piece that she has created.](https://
historicsteveston.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Dona-Nabata-1.jpg)

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/](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](https://www.richmondartgallery.org/outside-of-history)

![Dona is creating something in her studio at a table.](https://historicsteveston.
ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Dona-Nabata-2.jpg)

![Dona's artwork shows one large-scale person surrounded by other smaller people
and objects.](https://historicsteveston.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Dona-Nabata-
3.jpg)