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Wing Luke is for the people, by the people

When Beth Takekawa, the executive director for the Wing Luke Asian Museum, came to Seattle in 1989, she noticed there was something different about the city’s Asian-American community. She had lived in Chicago and New York, where “it had never even been an option to do pan-Asian work. The communities didn’t live together, and there’s a lot of politics involved.”

But in Seattle, pan-Asian community collaborations are much more common. “A lot of Asian Americans remark on that, too,” says Takekawa. “I guess because of its unique history, especially in this neighborhood (the International District).”


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> Wing Luke Asian Museum

You may be wondering: “Why are there 35 people on the cover of this month’s issue?” We have never featured so many people on one single cover, yet the reasoning behind it speaks directly to the philosophy and mission of the subject matter.

For 42 years, the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle has been the culmination of the vision, dedication and hard work of its many contributors...


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