The new Filipino American Museum is set to open with its first exhibition October 29th in New York, reports Hyperallergic.
Two alumni from the Museum of Chinese in America are behind the new museum, Carolyn Cervantes Antonio and Nancy A. Bulalacao-Leung.
“We hope to be a hub for the Filipino-American community as well as the Asian-American community … MOCA was very focused on history and that’s something we are too but there are other Filipino-American organizations that are already doing that work and doing it well,” Bulalacao-Leung noted in an interview with Hyperallergic earlier today. “We want to be able to connect activists, artists, entrepreneurs, and historians; we are interested in seeking untold stories in whatever format and medium and presenting them in new and interesting ways.”
The opening exhibition will be sound-and-light piece by Stephen Decker, “Salvaging the Aether,” at Third Streaming. The Museum will move from place to place while it searches for a permanent location.
