Evelyna Liang Kan

For the past 40 years, Evelyna Liang, Artist, Art Educator and Community Art

facilitator has been feverishly push forward community Art in Hong Kong, China

and Asia.- using Art to help the needy and underprivileged communities. She had

founded the “Art in the Camp” project in the late 80’s, bringing all sorts of art

activities in the Vietnamese detention Camp, providing proper Art Education for

the Vietnamese Camp children, and enlighten the depressive situation

of the prison like camp with arts and color. In the early 90’s,

Evelyna founded the “ Art in Hospital” in Hong Kong,

and brought forward the idea of Art and Health in all communities.

Not just the hospital walls been turn into happy and colorful murals,

”Art in Hospital” also organized different levels of therapeutic arts project

to bring closer the relationship between health care personnel, social services,

staff, patients and artists alike. She then founded “Art for All” in 2002,

a charitable Community Art organization, aiming to use Art to empower all,

for a better, harmonious inclusive society, to respect oneself and for all.

Recently she has help develop arts program in various migrant worker’s children

schools in Beijing, China. Train up social and community workers to

employ arts as part of community development. For the past year,

Evelyna uses her skills in therapeutic expressive art form to help sooth the mind,

body and soul for the battered society in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake

zone in China.

Evelyna exhibited extensively around Hong Kong and Asia,

in her own personal work she addresses mostly on women issues.

Her interest has extended into the area of ‘Healing through Art’ using

ordinary daily objects to raise concern on relationship between countries

and between men.