hapa.me: 15 years of the hapa project
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Every Thursday–Sunday, through August 13
Japanese American Museum of Oregon
Old Town-Chinatown (Portland)
This is an in-person event
$5 - $8
All Ages
Photographer Kip Fulbeck's ongoing Hapa Project is revisited in hapa.me: 15 years of the hapa project, which explores multiracial Asian American heritage through portraiture and handwritten responses to the question, "What are you?" The fresh exhibition showcases 15 years of Fulbeck's portraits, with participants’ updated photographs and statements, reflecting their changes in perspective and outlook, installed side-by-side with older ones. Coined by Native Hawaiians, the term "hapa" means "half" and is typically used to mean "half white;" the term has been embraced by multiracial Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. Fulbeck's Hapa Project began in 2001, when he photographed over 1,200 hapa-identifying volunteers. Since then, the project has expanded to give voice to multiracial people, dispel myths around exoticism, and more.
by Lindsay Costello