Through My Father's Eyes:
The Filipino American Photographs of Ricardo Alvarado

• This collection of 50 rare photographs will be at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History from Nov. 21 until March 31, 2003.

• The exhibition will then travel to Sacramento, Calif., Seattle, Wash., Pensacola, Fla., and several other cities.
   
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Korean American Centennial

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program kicks off a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Korean immigrants with two events in January.

• On January 23, 2003, a public dialogue about the contributions and perceptions of Korean Americans will feature leading Korean American journalists K.W. Lee (the nation's foremost Korean American print journalist), Jeannie Park (People magazine), and Alice Rhee (CNBC's The News With Brian Williams).
• From January 22 through June, 2003, the National Museum of Natural History hosts "A Korean American Century," a photographic celebration of 100 years of Korean American history.

• A More Perfect Union
  Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
  Permanent exhibition at National Museum of American History
  
  This award-winning online exhibition examines the events surrounding the Japanese American internment during World War II. The website explores the frailty of individual rights balanced with the need for national security in times of national crisis.

• Kaho‘olawe
  Ke Aloha Kupa‘a I Ka‘Aina (Steadfast Love of the Land)
  June 5 to September 2, 2002
  
  "Kaho‘olawe" showed how one of Hawaii‘s islands became degraded and then rescued and revitalized through a spiritual, cultural and political awakening of the Native Hawai‘ian people and their allies. The exhibition, a project of the Bishop Museum Native Hawai‘ian Culture and Arts Program, allowed visitors to hear the voices of those who participated in the saving of the island.

• Fly to Freedom
  The Art of the Golden Venture Refugees
  June 8 to September 30, 2001
  
  This exhibition, produced by the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, featured paper sculptures and papier-mâché art made by imprisoned refugees from the Golden Venture, a ship that wrecked off the coast of New York City in 1993. Among the nearly 300 passengers on the ship were many who had left their homes in China to make passage to the United States.

• Gateway to Gold Mountain
  The Angel Island Immigration
  July 9 to August 27, 2001
  
  This traveling exhibition, designed by Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, told the story of Angel Island. This immigration station in San Francisco Bay was the entry point into the United States for more than 175,000 Chinese immigrants between 1910 and 1940.

• On Gold Mountain
  A Chinese American Experience
  May 18 to September 30, 2001
  
  This exhibition, organized by the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, linked the story of one family in Los Angeles to the larger history of Los Angeles' Chinatown, the history of Chinese Americans in the United States, and the circumstances that transformed the Chinese in America into Chinese Americans.

• From Bento to Mixed Plate
  Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai‘i
  May 23 to November 30, 1999
  
  This exhibit told the story of how Japanese immigrated to Hawai‘i to work on sugar plantations, became part of the "local" Hawaii cultural mix, and established themselves as community leaders in Hawai‘i. This was a traveling exhibition from the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.