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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and is also staying safe, warm, and healthy. Our next newsletter will be the last one of 2023. I'm curious to know how you will spending your holidays! Drop us a line on our social media and share your plans with us!
Mabel Menard
Interim Executive Director
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| ARE YOU OUR NEXT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR? |
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The Executive Director (ED) manages the operations, fundraising, and programming of the Museum, and collaborates with the Board of Directors to develop plans for increasing revenue, fiscal sustainability, programs and exhibits, community engagement and representation, and communications. The ED is expected to raise the profile of the Museum within Chicago and across the Chinese American communities in the Midwest, increase revenue and membership, and build on the substantial public interest in Chineseand Chinese American cultures. | |
| CURRENT SPOTLIGHT SERIES | | |
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THROUGH DECEMEBER 10, 2023
Painter James Kao loves to draw from observing and then imagining nature. For our next Spotlight Series, he will show five drawings that reflect on how built and unbuilt (natural?) worlds confront each other; and three additional drawings which reveal how war cuts through both.
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If you are visiting Chinatown, don’t forget to stop by for our permanent and temporary exhibits. | |
Current Temporary Exhibits | |
Chinese Cuisine in America: Stories, Struggles & Successes
| Through waves of Chinese immigration since the California Gold Rush, Chinese American cuisine continuously transformed itself and now reflects a blossoming of Chinese and Chinese American regional styles. Come explore this fascinating history, enjoy cooking demonstrations, and examine the complex history of Chicago Chinese American restaurants through interviews with local restaurateurs during the pandemic. | |
Chee Wang Ng: The Sustenance of Aftertaste | |
Explore Chinese American identity through postcards, street photos, and creamers from award winning designer and artist"Chee Wang Ng. His large digital photographs, drawn from the wood block prints of traditional Chinese folk conventions, reassert their forms and purposes. Technology, does more than update a traditional recognizable message. Ng uses the exactly repeatable visual image, as Western artifact, to eclipse the notion of rationality. He does this by pointing, unabashedly, to an Asian civilization's perennial observations. Shorn of folk art's naivete, Ng uses 'rebus,' a way of expressing words with objects whose names resemble those words, to invoke an entire Asian outlook - Nature, mysticism (as an un-mediated grasp of the universe), the I Ching classic, folk religion, family events and family ties. Proverbial motifs are made spiffy, with a social savvy that aims to achieve rapport across racial lines. In his hands ethnicity and difference become an asset. Feature articles on his graphic designs have appeared in books and magazines such as Progressive Architecture. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design in Architecture, he is trilingual, born and raised in the multiracial milieu of Malaysia." | |
Please note we are closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day, which both happen to fall on Mondays. | |
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It is now easier than ever to book a group tour of the museum.
To request a group tour, please click the link below and submit the reservation request at least two weeks prior to the date requested.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing your group!
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Host your corporate event, board meeting, or private party at CAMOC!
The 4th floor event space is an ideal space for professional development gatherings, film presentations, and conference gatherings.
Recommended uses: Meetings, Workshops, Films, and Receptions
Capacity
Reception: 99
Theater-style: 80
Conference: 40
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The mission of the Chinese American Museum of Chicago - Raymond B. & Jean T. Lee Center (CAMOC) is is to advance the appreciation of Chinese American culture through exhibitions, education, and research and to preserve the past, present, and future of Chinese Americans primarily in the Midwest.
The museum building, formerly the Quong Yick Co., is located in Chicago's Chinatown, at 238 West 23rd Street in Chicago. The Museum opened to the public on May 21, 2005. After a devastating fire in September of 2008, the Museum was closed for renovation and reopened in 2010.
CAMOC is governed by the Board of Directors of the Chinatown Museum Foundation (CMF), a 501(C)(3) non-profit corporation located in Chicago, Illinois.
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