Michelle Yeoh
Congratulations to Michelle Yeoh for her history-making Oscar win for Best Actress! Considered one of the greatest female action movie stars, Yeoh originally dreamed of becoming a dancer. She began...
View ArticleWong Kim Ark Day
March 28th is Wong Kim Ark Day! 125 years ago on this day, Wong Kim Ark won his Supreme Court case, affirming his right to American citizenship, along with that of every child born to immigrant parents...
View ArticleChristine Choy
Filmmaker Christine Choy is best known for her Oscar-nominated, Peabody-winning documentary that she co-directed with Renee Tajima-Peña, “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” (1987). Choy grew up in an eclectic...
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Maggie Gee
Maggie Gee (1923-2013) spent countless Saturdays in the 1920s and ‘30s of her childhood driving out to Oakland airfield with her family to watch the planes fly. Back then, people marveled at flight and...
View ArticleA Note from the MOCA Board of Directors
Dear Friends of MOCA, Today, we are thrilled to announce our selection of arts and cultural leader Nina Curley as our Interim Executive Director to succeed our outgoing President, Nancy Yao. Nina comes...
View ArticleAcquisitions Highlights April 2023
MOCA created a New Acquisition Committee in March 2021 tasked with conducting monthly meetings to make decisions on potential new collection requests. New Collections are accepted or rejected based on...
View ArticleAcquisitions Highlights May 2023
MOCA created a New Acquisition Committee in March 2021 tasked with conducting monthly meetings to make decisions on potential new collection requests. New Collections are accepted or rejected based on...
View ArticleThe Asian American Movement in New York
Inspired by the civil rights, Black Power, and liberation movements of the era, which sought to collectively overturn the racial and economic order that divided and impoverished people of color since...
View ArticleAcquisitions Highlights June 2023
MOCA created a New Acquisition Committee in March 2021 tasked with conducting monthly meetings to make decisions on potential new collection requests. New Collections are accepted or rejected based on...
View ArticleMOCA Performance Highlights Marcella Dear Collection
On Thursday May 17th, 2023, MOCA PERFORMS actors brought Chinese American history to life during a live reading of letters drawn from MOCA’s Marcella Dear Collection. The letters—which were written to...
View ArticleMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT
[New York, NY] March 5, 2024 – The Museum of Chinese in America Board of Trustees announced today that Michael E. Lee has been named as the institution’s next President, effective April 1. Lee comes to...
View ArticleAcquisition Highlights 2024
MOCA created a New Acquisition Committee in March 2021 tasked with conducting monthly meetings to make decisions on potential new collection requests. New Collections are accepted or rejected based on...
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