MOCA TALKS with Kip Fulbeck – hapa.me: 25 Years of the Hapa Project

Presented during the closing week of hapa.me, the Museum of Chinese in America cordially invites you to an engaging conversation with artist and professor Kip Fulbeck, moderated by Herb Tam, MOCA’s Chief Curator and Senior Director of Exhibitions and Programming. Together, they will reflect on 25 years of The Hapa Project, Fulbeck’s landmark body of work that centers the voices and faces of people of mixed Asian and Pacific Islander heritage while posing a deceptively simple yet enduring question, What are you?

Beginning in 2001, Fulbeck traveled across the United States photographing multiracial individuals of all ages and backgrounds, pairing portraits with handwritten reflections on identity, belonging, and self-definition. The project culminated in the influential book and touring exhibition Kip Fulbeck: Part Asian, 100% Hapa. The current exhibition, Hapa.me: 25 Years of The Hapa Project, revisits many of the original participants two decades later, revealing how time, lived experience, and shifting social contexts have reshaped their understandings of race and selfhood.

In this talk, Fulbeck will discuss the project’s origins, its evolution over a quarter century, and the broader cultural shifts that have reframed conversations around multiracial identity, from deeply personal narratives to wider demographic and social change. Don’t miss this final opportunity to experience hapa.me at MOCA before the exhibition closes on Sunday, March 29, 2026.