Museum of Chinese in America

Happy Pride Month! Come sing, dance, and celebrate love in all its forms as we read Julián at the Wedding and Love, Z. Please bring something that reminds you of what love feels like (it could be anything! Perhaps a blanket, a photograph, a small toy, a steamed bun) to share! We will end storytime with a craft. See you tomorrow! Live via Zoom tomorrow, Thursday, June 10th at 4PM EDT! Register for FREE here: https://bit.ly/2S9qWm4 Please note that this workshop ...will be recorded via Zoom and posted on Facebook Live for 24 hours. #Storytime #MuseumFromHome #MuseumAtHome #ChineseAmerican #Chinatown #Family #PrideMonth ---------- At MOCA, stories and storytelling are incredibly important to our mission of preserving and presenting the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the United States. MOCA has launched the OneWorld COVID-19 collection that seeks to document and share the stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate with incredible acts of compassion and generosity. We welcome you to send us a write-up, photos, videos, audio, emails, texts and any other materials to [email protected] to share a story that you believe should be recorded. Help us continue to tell the stories of these extraordinary individuals and community groups.

Check out our newest MOCA Heroes magazine about Maya Lin . Maya Lin is a world-famous artist , sculptor, and architect . Read on to learn more about her life and work! MOCA Heroes is a series of free, non-fiction magazines that explore the lives of Chinese American trailblazers. Head to https://www.mocanyc.org/learn/learning-resources/ to read them all. #museumfromhome #museumathome #projectsathome #aapiheritagemonth #chineseamerican #americanhistory #history

Let the celebrations continue! Educator Taylor and her friend Roux are back with another Spectacular AAPI Superheroes MOCACREATE at Home, and this time, we're making trading cards! Learn about another real-life Chinese American hero Huge Ma, founder of TurboVax, and how to create a freshly minted trading card. Then, create your very own inspired by someone you admire a family member, friend, or someone from your community! Share your finished projects with us by tagging #MOCACREATE and #MOCACREATEathome on social media, DMing us, or emailing images to [email protected].

Join us virtually today, May 17 at 5:00 PM EDT as writer and editor Brian Kuan Wood talks about his life and work with Andrew Rebatta, MOCA's Associate Curator. This conversation is part of the series Curators in Conversation, where we learn about how curators, artists, and cultural producers in the Chinese and Asian American community approach their work. Brian will discuss growing up Seattle and becoming interested in music, moving to Egypt and then to New York in the early... 2000s, the genesis of the online platform e-flux journal, and more recent attractions to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China in relation to being a mixed-race cultural producer in the art world. Brian Kuan Wood is a writer and editor in New York. He is a founding editor of e-flux journal and Director of Research at SVA’s MA in Curatorial Practice. His recent writings include the essay Insurgency of Life on immunity in the work of Goldin+Senneby and mechanical and organic circularity in the work of philosopher Yuk Hui, and the short story The Story of Peter Green Peter Chang, about a Chinese-American architect eager to profit from the place of his own family’s origins. He recently edited Relearning Bearing Witness, a book of Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s writing, and, with Anselm Franke, edited the Taipei Biennial 2012 catalogue, Modern Monsters: Death and Life of Fiction (2014). He has edited readers such as What's Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It, The Internet Does Not Exist, and Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art (with Julieta Aranda, Kaye Cain-Nielsen, and Anton Vidokle, Sternberg Press, 2015, 2015, and 2011, respectively). He was a visiting professor at the Home Workspace study program (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut) in 2013-14.

Happy AAPI Heritage Month! Help us round out our celebration as we read some special Asian American books featuring familiesboth near and far. Storytelling is an important part of family history, so join us for stories , songs , and a craft! Bring a loved one, or a picture of someone you love who lives far away from you. Live via Zoom tomorrow, Thursday, May 27th at 4PM EDT! Register for FREE here: https://bit.ly/3ysBNI1 Please note that this workshop will be recor...ded via Zoom and posted on Facebook Live for 24 hours. This program is part of our celebration of Lower East Side History Month and the diversity and resilience of Lower East Side communities. For more activities, check out https://www.peoplesles.org! Photo credit: I Dream of Popo by Livia Blackburne, illustrated by Julia Kuo #Storytime #MuseumFromHome #MuseumAtHome #ChineseAmerican #Chinatown #Family #LESHistoryMonth #AAPIHeritageMonth ---------- At MOCA, stories and storytelling are incredibly important to our mission of preserving and presenting the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the United States. MOCA has launched the OneWorld COVID-19 collection that seeks to document and share the stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate with incredible acts of compassion and generosity. We welcome you to send us a write-up, photos, videos, audio, emails, texts and any other materials to [email protected] to share a story that you believe should be recorded. Help us continue to tell the stories of these extraordinary individuals and community groups.

Happy AAPI Heritage month! Let’s show some love to ourselves and others as we read Joanna Ho’s Eyes that Kiss in the Corners and Grace Lin’s Up to My Knees! We’ll sing some songs and make a celebratory craft, too. Don’t forget to bring some dancing energy! Live via Zoom tomorrow, Thursday, May 13th at 4PM EST! Register for FREE here: https://bit.ly/3tAlEg0 Please note that this workshop will be recorded via Zoom and posted on Facebook Live for 24 hours. ... This program is part of our celebration of Lower East Side History Month and the diversity and resilience of Lower East Side communities. For more activities, check out https://www.peoplesles.org! #Storytime #MuseumFromHome #MuseumAtHome #ChineseAmerican #Chinatown #Gardening #LESHistoryMonth #AAPIHeritageMonth ---------- At MOCA, stories and storytelling are incredibly important to our mission of preserving and presenting the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the United States. MOCA has launched the OneWorld COVID-19 collection that seeks to document and share the stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate with incredible acts of compassion and generosity. We welcome you to send us a write-up, photos, videos, audio, emails, texts and any other materials to [email protected] to share a story that you believe should be recorded. Help us continue to tell the stories of these extraordinary individuals and community groups.

Join us virtually today, May 27 at 5:00 PM EDT as writer and editorBrian Kuan Woodtalks about his life and work withAndrew Rebatta, MOCA’s Associate Curator. This conversation is part of the series Curators in Conversation, where we learn about how curators, artists, and cultural producers in the Chinese and Asian American community approach their work. Brian will discuss growing up Seattle and becoming interested in music, moving to Egypt and then to New York in the early... 2000s, the genesis of the online platform e-flux journal, and more recent attractions to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China in relation to being a mixed-race cultural producer in the art world. Brian Kuan Wood is a writer and editor in New York. He is a founding editor ofe-flux journal and Director of Research at SVA’s MA in Curatorial Practice. His recent writings include the essay Insurgency of Life on immunity in the work of Goldin+Senneby and mechanical and organic circularity in the work of philosopher Yuk Hui, and the short story The Story of Peter Green Peter Chang, about a Chinese-American architect eager to profit from the place of his own family’s origins. He recently edited Relearning Bearing Witness, a book of Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s writing, and, with Anselm Franke, edited the Taipei Biennial 2012 catalogue, Modern Monsters: Death and Life of Fiction (2014). He has edited readers such as What’s Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It, The Internet Does Not Exist, and Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art (with Julieta Aranda, Kaye Cain-Nielsen, and Anton Vidokle, Sternberg Press, 2015, 2015, and 2011, respectively). He was a visiting professor at the Home Workspace study program (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut) in 2013-14. Register for this event at the link in bio. #chineseamerican #AAPI #asianamerican #history #arts #newyork #newyorkcity #ny

It’s May, and we’re celebrating AAPI Heritage Month! Educator Taylor and her friend Roux are getting us started with some amazing facts about fictional AAPI superheroes and introducing us to real-life Chinese American hero Grace Lee Boggs. Then, let’s design our own superheroes! Special powers? Awesome costumes? Exciting stories? We’ve got it all! Share your finished projects with us by tagging #MOCACREATE and #MOCACREATEathome on social media, DMing us, or emailing images to [email protected]. #museumfromhome #museumathome #projectsathome #aapiheritagemonth #chineseamerican

Join us for a MOCAKIDS Meet & Greet with award-winning author Julie Leung! Julie will read her inspiring new book, The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee, about the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military. Then you’ll have a chance to ask Julie questions about her writing process and together we’ll create a paper plane in honor of Hazel.

In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, MOCA Spotlight Series is honored to present as our next featured speaker, the inspiring Dr. David K. Lam. As the founder of Lam Research Corporation, Dr. Lam is an entrepreneurial legend in Silicon Valley. As its first CEO, he guided the successful development and launch of his eponymous company’s plasma etch system, a critical production equipment in the 1980s that ushered the submicron era in chip-makin...g. In 1984, he became the first Asian-American CEO to take a company public on the NASDAQ exchange. Dr. Lam continues to leverage his experience, expertise and network to assist other high technology enterprises, serving as director and guiding young ventures to successful outcomes. He currently devotes most of his time to Multibeam Corporation, a world leader in Multicolumn Electron-Beam Lithography (MEBL) technology. As its Chairman & CEO, Dr. Lam has led Multibeam to transform its technology into equipment for use in production fabs and guided the development of unique applications at industry inflections. Among the benefits enabled by the MEBL system are: dramatic cost reduction for low-volume IC production with no use of masks; inscribing, i.e., hardcoding, chip-specific information inside each IC during fabrication to combat IC counterfeiting; low-cost production of large-format interposers for advanced packaging; and other emerging applications. Dr. Lam earned Doctoral and Master degrees in chemical engineering from M.I.T. as well as a Bachelor degree in engineering physics from the University of Toronto. Widely recognized by his peers as a key contributor to the growth of the semiconductor industry, he was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in 2013. Dr. Lam has a remarkable story to tell and we cannot wait to share it with you. We look forward to your participation, and to sharing this and many more exemplary stories of the Chinese in America.

We’re on Day 39 and very near the conclusion of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA’s 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. In 2018, MOCA presented Chinese Medicine in America: Converging Ideas, People and Practices, an exploration of Chinese medicine. The show discussed mysterious and magical practices from the 19th century to modern alternative medicine (like acupuncture). The exhibition told a cross-cultural story throu...gh medical artifacts, contemporary art, and profiles on notable medical figures to connect medicine, philosophy, and history. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. Image courtesy of MOCA’s Collections. #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

When winter arrives, it’s sleepy time join us for a storytime about some sneaky, silly bears and their long winter nap. We’ll also sing a few songs and practice our snoring before making a bear-themed craft at the end. Don’t forget to bring a big, fluffy blanket! Live via Zoom tomorrow, Thursday, December 10 at 4PM EST! Register for free here: https://bit.ly/33Zx1Ee Please note that this workshop will be recorded via Zoom and posted on Facebook Live for 24 hours. ... #storytime #museumfromhome #museumathome #chineseamerican #chinatown #winter ---------- At MOCA, stories and storytelling are incredibly important to our mission of preserving and presenting the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the United States. MOCA has launched the OneWorld COVID-19 collection that seeks to document and share the stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate with incredible acts of compassion and generosity. We welcome you to send us a write-up, photos, videos, audio, emails, texts and any other materials to [email protected] to share a story that you believe should be recorded. Help us continue to tell the stories of these extraordinary individuals and community groups.

It's Day 38 of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA’s 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. In 2017, MOCA presented FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures, an updated version of the museum’s 1996 Fly to Freedom exhibit. The show was revisited as a way to engage the public in a conversation about the current climate regarding immigrants in the U.S. The exhibition displayed over 40 paper sculptures created by Chinese passengers of... the cargo ship, The Golden Venture, which ran aground at Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York in 1993. The sculptures were created during their incarceration in U.S. prisons and depicted caged birds and bald eagles that were meant to symbolize the unrealized American dream that they had hoped for. Originally, these pieces were created as gifts for their lawyers and supporters, but as time as has passed, these pieces of folk art have become an entry point into a pointed exploration of U.S. immigration policy. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. Image courtesy of MOCA’s Collections. #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

The MOCA Board of Directors and the professional team cordially invite you, your family, and friends to join us online for an evening to remember on Thursday, December 17, 2020. We will be celebrating MOCA’s 40th year with special guest speakers, performances, and more. Hear opening remarks by Ronny Chieng, renowned stand-up comedian and actor; a special talk titled A Year of Grit by keynote speaker Dr. Angela Duckworth, CEO of Character Lab and author of #1 New York Times... best-seller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance; a featured performance of Jay Chou's Chrysanthemum Terrace, Vivaldi's Winter, and Maroon 5's Memories, recorded at the Museum by Joyous String Ensemble; and MOCA's 2020 Highlights and In Memoriam videos. Register here for free access or find more information on VIP access: https://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/moca_40

We’re on Day 37 and the final week of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA’s 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. Each story reveals a facet of the untold history of MOCA, using iconic archival images from the Museum’s Collections. We're rapidly working our way through history up to the present! In 2016, MOCA presented Stage Design by Ming Cho Lee, a retrospective that celebrated the influential set designer. Lee is known for... his groundbreaking abstract design sets of the 1960s and ’70s to his more recent hard-edge treatments. The exhibition followed Lee’s artistic career through more than 40 original maquettes, sketches, and photographic reproductions. He has shared his knowledge in theater, opera, and dance through his work at Yale School of Drama for over 65 years. As a recipient of the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013, Ming Cho Lee is one of the most acclaimed set designers in the U.S. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. Image courtesy of MOCA’s Collections. #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

We’re now on Day 8 of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA's 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. Each story reveals a facet of the untold history of MOCA, using iconic archival images from the Museum’s Collections. Fay Chiang was the daughter of a paper son; her father immigrated to the United States to work in a laundry at 10 years old. She found it difficult to communicate with her immigrant parents, as they rarely sp...oke of their coming-of-age stories. When her father passed away, Chiang looked through the salvages of her parents’ past. These instances of Chiang’s were commonplace for many second-generation Chinese Americans. In the 1980s, the New York Chinatown History Project asked community members for family memorabilia to record the 100-year-old history. The collection resulted in the 1987 show, Salvaging New York Chinatown: Preserving a Heritage curated by Dorothy Rony. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. All images courtesy of MOCA's Collections. #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

MOCA is thrilled to invite you to the second installment of MOCA's newest initiative called MOCA Treasures on the Road today! We are honored to present our speaker Anne Shen Chao, PhD. from the Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA). Prof. Chao, is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Humanities at Rice University where she simultaneously manages the HAAA, a research and community outreach project created in 2009 to bring attention to the lives and experiences of Houston's Asian America...n communities. Since their inception, HAAA has grown to include a robust team which completed over 200 oral history interviews last year, and over the past several years, the HAAA received both the "Resilient Networks to Support Inclusive Digital Humanities" Jump-Start Grant and the Phi Beta Kappa Society Award for "Innovative Efforts to Build Community Connections through the Humanities. Prof. Anne will be in conversation with two guests and past HAAA interviewees: Linda Wu, former board member of the Houston Taipei Society and former president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, and Wea Lee, journalist and chairman of the Southern News Media Group. The first featured objects will be from Linda Wu's family archives at the HAAA including ephemera and stories from her father Albert Gee's famous Poly-Asian Restaurant in Houston, Texas as well as her involvement with Miss Chinatown Houston Pageant. The Gee family were notable Chinese American restauranteurs who owned and operated several establishments in the Houston area. The second featured artifact will be archival issues of Wea Lee's Southern Chinese Daily News (1979 - ) at the HAAA. Mr. Lee will also discuss ephemera from his personal collection including the ITC Community Empowerment Organization formerly known as International Trade Center - Houston.

Today is Day 7 of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA's 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. Each story reveals a facet of the untold history of MOCA, using iconic archival images from the Museum’s Collections. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act became the first law that prohibited individuals from entering the U.S. based on race. In 1986, MOCA developed the exhibition, In the Shadow of Liberty: Graphics of Chinese Exclu...sion, 1870s-1890s. The exhibition opening coincided with the 100th year celebration of the Statue of Liberty. Thus, the name of the show critiques the 1886 opening of the Statue of Liberty, a mask of freedom in the United States, while Chinese Americans experienced overt exclusion. In the same year, the New York Times developed a piece called, Why Asian Students Excel, bringing attention to a new way of perceiving Asian Americans: the model minority myth. Throughout these events, MOCA strived to ask, How do we want to gain our liberty? Through exclusion of some or inclusion of all? Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. All images courtesy of MOCA's Collections. #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

BOO! Don’t be scaredyou’re in for a treat with this week’s Halloween-themed storytime! Join us for a reading of Boo! and the always-classic Where the Wild Things Are. We’ll also sing a few songs and make a super-fun craft at the end. Don’t forget to wear your Halloween costume! Live via Zoom tomorrow, Thursday, October 22 at 4PM EDT! Register for free here: https://bit.ly/2T8Qf4J Please note that this workshop will be recorded via Zoom and posted on Facebook Live for... 24 hours. #storytime #museumfromhome #museumathome #halloween ---------- At MOCA, stories and storytelling are incredibly important to our mission of preserving and presenting the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the United States. MOCA has launched the OneWorld COVID-19 collection that seeks to document and share the stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate with incredible acts of compassion and generosity. We welcome you to send us a write-up, photos, videos, audio, emails, texts and any other materials to [email protected] to share a story that you believe should be recorded. Help us continue to tell the stories of these extraordinary individuals and community groups.

It’s Day 6 of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA's 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. Each story reveals a facet of the untold history of MOCA, using iconic archival images from the Museum’s Collections. In 1985, author and professor Judy Yung curated the show "The Chinese Women of America" at the New York Chinatown History Project. Yung was director of the San Francisco-based Chinese Women of America Research Project,... which crafted the show after two years of extensive research and oral histories. The show examined the experiences of the first Chinese women that came to the US in 1834 to the women of the 1980s. Notably, the exhibition featured Polly Bemis (pictured in photos 2 and 3), a Chinese woman who came to the US in 1872 as a slave and later gained her freedom, living out the rest of her life in Idaho. It also featured Sieh King King (pictured in photos 4 and 5), a female activist who spoke about female oppression in San Francisco in 1902. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. All images courtesy of MOCA's Collections. #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

We are thrilled to invite you to the second installment of MOCA Treasures on the Road on Wednesday, October 21, at 4:00 P.M. EDT. Register here: https://bit.ly/35gJ9R1 Our speaker is Anne Shen Chao, PhD. from the Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA), who will be in conversation with Linda Wu, former board member of the Houston Taipei Society and former president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, and Wea Lee, journalist and chairman of the Southern News Media Group.... The first featured objects will be from Linda Wu’s family archives at the HAAA including ephemera and stories from her father Albert Gee’s famous Poly-Asian Restaurant in Houston, Texas, as well as her involvement with Miss Chinatown Houston Pageant. The second featured artifact will be archival issues of Wea Lee’s Southern Chinese Daily News (1979 ) at the HAAA. Photo 1: Albert Gee’s Poly-Asian Restaurant (top row) and Miss Chinatown Houston Pageant (bottom row), courtesy of Linda Wu and the HAAA Photo 2: Southern Chinese Daily News and its 40th Anniversary Special Edition (left) and Wea Lee unloading 40 years of Southern Chinese Daily News to the HAAA (right), courtesy of Wea Lee and the HAAA

Welcome back for Day 5 of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA's 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. Each story reveals a facet of the untold history of MOCA, using iconic archival images from the Museum’s Collections. In 1984, the New York Chinatown History Project started a newsletter called the Bugaoban. The name was a reference to the community bulletin boards in old Chinatowns that were used to disseminate the news. ...The newsletter was meant to inform museum members of the current state of the institution, as well as provide articles that offer insight into the lives of Asian Americans. The issues were composed of articles written by staff as well as public submissions. The Bugaoban ran from 1984 through 2006. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. All images courtesy of MOCA's Collections #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

Today is Day 4 of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA's 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. Each story reveals a facet of the untold history of MOCA, using iconic archival images from the Museum’s Collections. The New York Chinatown History Project’s first exhibition titled Eight Pound Livelihood debuted in 1983. The show examined the lives of Chinese laundrymen in New York’s Chinatown. The term eight pound in the... title refers to the weight of the heavy irons that laundrymen wielded on a daily basis. The exhibition was installed on panels at the main branch of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street. After the show closed, it travelled to various college campuses including Cornell, Oberlin, New Hampshire, and various CUNY schools. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. All images courtesy of MOCA's Collections. #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

MOCA is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and a major comeback. The terrific Cindy Hsu of CBS New York @cbsnewyork was on hand as MOCA unveiled its new collections center, called MOCA Workshop, to show artifacts recovered from the 70 Mulberry Street fire earlier this year that nearly destroyed MOCA's archive of 200 years of Chinese American history. Watch Cindy's full TV story that aired on CBS New York's primetime broadcast at https://newyork.cbslocal.com... #CBSNewYork #WCBS-TV #CBS2 #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

Today’s craft is inspired by MOCA’s newest exhibition, Windows for Chinatownon display starting today in our museum windows! The exhibit showcases MOCA’s OneWorld COVID-19 Collection, which presents the experiences of Chinese Americans during the pandemic. Due to rising anti-Asian racism, Asian Americans have experienced unfair treatment, stereotyping, and even violence during COVID-19. Join us in raising awareness of racism and empowering Asian American communities by creating your own masked self-portrait! Share your finished projects with us by tagging #MOCACREATE and #MOCACREATEathome on social media, DMing us, or emailing images to [email protected]! #museumfromhome #museumathome #projectsathome #chineseamerican #chinatown #diy #selfportraits #asianamerican #aapi #racismisavirus

It's Day 3 of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA's 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. Each story reveals a facet of the untold history of MOCA, using iconic archival images from the Museum’s Collections. As the New York Chinatown History Project grew, so did the organization’s collection efforts. In 1982, two freelance photographers Bud Glick, pictured at left, and Paul Calhoun, pictured at right, were brought on t...o photograph and document the New York Chinatown community. The two men photographed the daily life of the residents of the community between 19821983. Glick would eventually revisit some of his subjects in preparation for a 2018 MOCA exhibition "Interior Lives: Photographs of Chinese Americans in the 1980s by Bud Glick" showcasing his newly digitized 19821983 photographs. The exhibition ran from October 2018 through March 2019. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. All images courtesy of Bud Glick, Paul Calhoun, and MOCA's Collections #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory

We're on Day 2 of the MOCA 40 Stories campaign where we celebrate MOCA's 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. Each story reveals a facet of the untold history of MOCA, using iconic archival images from the Museum’s Collections. During the first year of the New York Chinatown History Project, the priority was to conduct oral histories with members of the neighborhood. Over the course of 1981, the fledgling organization collected 28... oral histories. These included prominent community leaders such as Man Bun Lee (the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association President at the time), William Charlie Chin (folk singer), and Emma Mills (founder and former president of the Chinatown Planning Council). Oral histories, such as the ones recorded on tapes pictured here, offer a look into a bygone Chinatown and can serve as valuable firsthand sources for researchers. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. All images courtesy of MOCA's Collections #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #AmericanHistory See more

Welcome to "MOCA 40 Stories", where we celebrate MOCA's 40th Anniversary by sharing 40 stories over 40 days on social media. Each story reveals a facet of the untold history of MOCA, using iconic archival images from the Museum’s Collections. To kick off the MOCA 40 Stories series, here's the story of an artifact, a family and how their history speaks to the mission of MOCA to this day. ... Hand laundry businesses were a cornerstone of the early New York Chinese community. At one point in the early 20th century, there were over 500 hand laundries across the city. Laundry work was ideal for these shopkeepers. They were relatively inexpensive to start up, English language skills were not essential, and many lived within their laundry. When the remaining few of these businesses started closing in the 1970s and '80s, MOCA’s co-founders Jack Tchen and Charlie Lai prioritized documenting laundrymen’s lives as a way to learn about Chinatown’s beginnings. This 1930s iron coal-burning stove for heating irons pictured here, part of MOCA's Collections, continues that legacy. The stove’s original owner, Chong Lee, was a seaman who arrived in Brooklyn in the 1930s, and found work as a laundryman in the Bronx. Over time, he saved enough money to bring his mother, Bik Ha Lee, to the U.S. before opening Louie Kee Chinese Hand Laundry in Sunnyside, Queens. Siblings Elaine Hoo and Henry Lee were two of 10 in the family, and recall that the iron heating stove was an integral part of the business and their home. At the time, the family lived and worked in a total space of about 500 square feet. The stove not only helped the family make a living by heating irons and water for pressing laundry, but it also heated their home in the rear of the laundry store. This family "hearth" speaks to the heart of MOCA's mission since 1980: to tell the untold stories in the making of America. Be sure to follow us as we share more MOCA 40 Stories at #moca40stories! Do you have a favorite MOCA story from the past 40 years? Share it with us by using the hashtag #moca40stories or tagging us at @mocanyc. Credits: Image #1 is of the Lee family's iron coal-burning stove. Image #2 is of MOCA co-founders Jack Tchen and Charlie Lai. All images courtesy of MOCA's Collections. #moca40stories #chineseamerican #chinatown #asianamerican #AAPI #history #arts #americanhistory See more