Ann K. Chou
Lantern-maker. Access designer. Storyteller of systems and light.
I create inclusive, sensory experiences for public spaces—where art, care, and community meet.
Key Artistic Projects
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Lantern Installation Series
Interactive light-based installations exploring resilience, accessibility, and community connection.
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Eco-Illuminessence and Spoon Screendance Performance
Exploring the interplay between visual art, movement, and shadow.
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Lantern-making, Sock Pocket and Shoebox Stage for Accessiblity Inclusion Resilence Workshop Series as BC Culture Days Ambassador /h3>
Fostering critical hope, intergenerational and intercultural dialogue through hands-on, accessible art-making.
Art Meets Service Design
Ann’s practice bridges participatory art, inclusive technology, and healthcare experience—creating access across systems and surfaces.
/* Learn More*/AI & Service Design Portfolio
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AI for Good Internship
Applied inclusive AI solutions to healthcare access and digital storytelling.
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Draw-Aloud: Reimagining Health Records
Co-designing patient experiences through visual storytelling and accessibility mapping.
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Inclusive Service Systems
Human-centered design approaches to accessibility and equity in care.
Workshops & Community Engagement
Ann leads inclusive, adaptive workshops using light, paper, and play to foster creative dialogue across communities.
/* See Upcoming Workshops */About Ann as an artist
Ann K Chou (she/her) is a multi-talent light-oriented visual installation artist, who is mostly fond of spontaneous brush works, in both Chinese calligraphy ink and acrylics. Ann has come from a relative quiet intersectionality -- deaf first-generation immigrant from Hong Kong. Her life-long art media are lanterns in possession and wearable puppet in parades. And she is attending a disability screendance residency at the mome.
She comes to believe that things are to be broken and then reform.
She likes to be guided by the "materials', with understanding of their limitations, but want to push their limits, beyond its "intended use". This speaks to my living experience as a person with disabilities. Her material includes papers, and goes beyond papers: such as found materials and objects in gardens and recycling bins, translucent fabric, clear plastics, mesh, bamboos and grape vines.
Let’s Connect
Interested in a storefront collaboration, community project, or exhibition proposal? Reach out anytime.
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