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Current Exhibits

Jake Lee, House of Winds, water color	OPENING on November 30, 2007 Sunshine & Shadow: In Search of Jake Lee Hosted by the Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles and co-produced with the Automobile Club of Southern California, “Sunshine & Shadow: In Search of Jake Lee” is an exhibition that marks the first comprehensive and critical review of a prolific yet intensely private artist who embraced California landscapes and city scenes through watercolor. The exhibit will highlight more than 60 watercolors, including eight from the Auto Club’s WESTWAYS cover art collection. The collection will also illustrate with photos and letters more details of the artist’s professional career and his family life, which he kept distinctly separate for many years. Check out page 14 and 92 in the November 2007 issue of Westways Magazine for more information about Jake Lee! A full-color exhibit catalogue will be available for purchase at the Museum gift store for a limited time only. November 30, 2007 - October 25, 2008
	Growing Up Chinese American: Childhood Toys and Memories Our childhood toys and experiences can deeply influence how we remember the past, understand our place in the world in the present, and lead grown up lives in the future. Growing Up Chinese American: Childhood Toys and Memories is an exhibit that explores this relationship by presenting children’s toys from the Chinese American Museum permanent collection and the personal stories of their owners. By exploring facets of everyday life for children of Chinese descent coming of age in a rapidly changing 20th century America, Growing Up Chinese American presents a complex picture of how childhood can shape our grown up lives in subtle but meaningful ways. The toys and stories featured in the exhibit also suggest by their multiple and varied frames of reference that a broad spectrum of Chinese American childhood experiences exists, and it is from this rich diversity which Chinese American history and Chinese American futures stem. Exhibit made possible in part through the generous support of Union Bank of California and Megatoys. November 5, 2006 - Summer 2008 (exact date to be announced)
A bilingual letter written circa 1900	Journeys This exhibit narrates Chinese immigration to the United States with an emphasis on community settlement in Los Angeles. The display is outlined into four distinct time periods. Each period is defined by an important immigration law/and or event, accompanied by a brief description and a short personal story about a local Chinese American and their experiences in that particular historical period.
A photo of the original Los Angeles Chinatown	Neighborhood Stories This photographic exhibition will introduce visitors to the beginnings of Los Angeles’ changing Chinese American communities, from the city’s original Chinatown, New Chinatown, China City, and Market Chinatown. This exhibit will provide through pictures, a glimpse at how the Chinese American community began to make Los Angeles home.
Image Coming Soon!	Footsteps Through Time A collaborative project between the History Channel, the Chinese American Museum and a local elementary school in Chinatown, this new exhibit focuses on a 5th grade class’ exploration of family history and preservation through the use of oral interviews, photographs and shoes. Students from Ms. Susan Dickson’s 5th grade class at Castelar Elementary School were encouraged to preserve their own family histories by learning about how the history of Los Angeles’ early Chinese American communities are preserved. Family photos, oral history interviews, timelines and drawings are placed alongside stories and photos from the Museum’s collections as a portrait of our local community. Restored floorboards of the historic Garnier Building, the only remaining building of the city’s original Chinatown, provide the backdrop for the exhibit. July 6, 2004 – closing date to be announced

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