Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
Background
The Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) wanted to deepen their engagement with their audience and museum visitors.
NMAA wanted to activate the museum in innovative ways with public programming that was interactive, playful, and mapped uniquely to the stories and memories of NMAA museum visitors.
My role
NMAA commissioned “We Are Here”, a weeklong multimedia campaign, interactive performance, installation, with original music + sound design to make visitors feel connected to the AAPI art and community.
To commemorate, we collected stories from the Asian American Community and supporters and visitors of the museum, to ask them to reflect on their memories of the stories they want to be represented, and to dream of the stories they want to be told in the next 100 years.
“Museums can be a symbol—they are places that hold stories.
They show us the places we have been and how far we still have to go.
They show us we can embrace the hope of the future while accepting our histories.
What are the memories you cherish here?
What are the futures you want to create with us?
What stories do you want to be told?”
