The “Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States” exhibit was first installed at the UCR ARTS in Riverside, California from October 2021-February 2022. The UCR ARTS houses the California Museum of Photography and the Barbara & Art Culver Center of the Arts.
The online and traveling “Pachappa Camp” exhibition is generously funded by a Mellon Foundation Humanities in Place award granted to the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at UC Riverside in early 2023.
“Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States” is curated by Edward Chang, professor of ethnic studies and founding director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at UCR, and Carol K. Park, a UCR graduate student researcher at the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies.
Several photographs and ephemera from the exhibit were provided by Special Collections & Archives, UCR Libraries, University of California, Riverside Kim Family Papers collection. Special thanks to Meiko Inaba for donating the Kim collection materials to the YOK Center and UCR.
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