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COMMUNITY PROCESS

Learn about the Wing Luke Museum’s community-developed model for creating community-centered exhibits, programs, and events.

What is the
COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (CAC)?

No other museum is able to tell stories of the Asian American, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian experience quite like the Wing Luke Museum, and that’s because of community members like you.

For more than 30 years, our nationally-recognized process, the Community Advisory Committee (CAC), is the way we empower community members to help create our exhibits by ensuring that their voices, stories, and experiences are front and center in proposing and co-creating them.

We are honored to steward this award-winning process, which is informed around, and guided by, the Museum’s values:

  • People give us meaning and purpose.  

  • Relationships are our foundation.  

  • We desire community empowerment and ownership.  

  • The work is labor intensive.  

  • The work requires flexibility.  

  • We willingly relinquish control.

What does it take to do community-based work? Learn more

LEARN ABOUT OUR PROCESS

More information about the community process is outlined in our booklet “Community-Based Exhibition Model” available on our online store or over the phone.

GET THE BOOK

PROPOSE AN EXHIBIT

The Wing Luke Museum accepts exhibition proposals from the community throughout the calendar year, to the end of December. In the new year, we carefully consider all of the proposals to begin the process of setting our exhibition schedule. Thank you in advance for your patience. 

With many of our exhibits, the community members are the curators – they are at the ground level in the development process, bringing their ideas and oral histories to the mix. The end results are completely unique from any other exhibits at the Museum.

Should your proposal be selected, the Wing Luke Museum will work with you to determine the best method to integrate our community-based process and incorporate the rich stories, experiences and resources from community members. We welcome proposals and ideas that are open-ended.

PROPOSE AN EXHIBIT