The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center with the Smithsonian American Art Museum this week unveiled an exhibit which highlights the impact of Asian Americans in Washington D.C.
The Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond exhibit includes a section on local martial arts instructors, including Ki Whang Kim.
The Ki Whang Kim Traditional Martial Arts Association helped curator Sojin Kim get information for the exhibit, and now Mr. Kim and his students are on display.
Along with Grandmasters Raymond Lee, Albert Cheeks and Furman Marshall, we’re here in Chinatown celebrating the unveiling of the exhibit.
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Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond highlights the imprint of Asian Americans on the physical and cultural terrain of Washington, DC. The exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, is on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, located in DC’s historical Chinatown neighborhood.
The featured stories highlight examples of cultural production that interpret elements of Chinese, Korean, and Javanese heritage or express coalitional Asian American and BIPOC identities. These are presented in displays of artwork, material culture, images, and other graphic material drawn from Smithsonian collections as well as shared by local lenders, including community members and repositories such as the DC History Center and the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University.
For more information, please visit the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s website.
Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch said he was glad to attend the event because it got him out of a meeting with Congress.
Grandmasters Albert Cheeks and Furman Marshall.
Grandmaster Cheeks finds himself in the picture.
