Jean Kares

Jean Kares is an independent scholar, textile specialist, and artist. She holds an MA in Asian art history from the University of British Columbia and teaches regularly at Langara College as specialist in Chinese art ranging from Neolithic bronzes to 19th-century literati painting.

She owns and operates TextileContext, her fibre art studio located on Granville Island. For the past 10 years or so, much of her artwork has been informed by Asian art and aesthetics, with a special emphasis on indigo dye and Japanese textile-patterning techniques.

Kares teaches Tai Chi and studies Mandarin, and she has travelled to Asia several times, most recently touring the western portion of the Chinese Silk Road route.

Poetic Charm and Imaginary Space: Exploring the Chinese Garden (55+)

Previously taught:

From Isolation to Internationalism: Chinese Art, 1911–2011 (55+)
Introduction to Chinese Art: Tombs to Tiananmen Square (55+)