Donna Seto is a writer and self-taught artist who grew up exploring Vancouver’s Chinatown with her parents. Her new book, Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History, is a love letter to the neighbourhood and is available now at Foo Hung Curios.
To celebrate, Donna and Foo Hung Curios have teamed up on an exclusive merch collection inspired by her artwork and Chinatown stories.
Details:
All proceeds support the Chinatown Storytelling Centre - an award-winning cultural hub and proud initiative of the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation, dedicated to the revitalization of Chinatown.
Items must be unused, with original tags and packaging, and a receipt is required. Sale items are final sale.
Online: Exchange or store credit within 7 days of delivery. Email hello@foohungcurios.com before returning. Return shipping is the customer’s responsibility, or you can return in-store.
In-store: Exchange or store credit within 7 days of purchase. No refunds or price adjustments.
Donna Seto (she/her) is a Vancouver-based self-taught watercolour artist who was once told that art wouldn’t get her anywhere. During the pandemic, she revisited her passion for art and started illustrating the buildings of Vancouver’s Chinatown. Donna is drawn to urban settings, marginalized communities, layered histories, and the complexity of memory, which she hopes to capture through her art. She is also a writer with a research background in Politics and International Relations and works at the University of British Columbia. Donna is working on her first novel, a collection of short stories, as well as turning her illustrations of Chinatown into a book. She feels privileged to have grown up on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples.
