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Our Health, Our Arts: HIV / AIDS in the APA Community

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Funded by a grant from Swarthmore College, Our Health, Our Arts is a six-session summer program which will take a look at public policies, research, and other literature on issues related to HIV/AIDS (including but not limited to immigration, youth, health care, and community health) and at political uses of the visual arts as a tool for community education. The program will focus specifically on the Asian Pacific American communities of New York City. This summer, participants will take art classes, have serious discussions, and develop individual art projects that will be completed in the fall.

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Center for the Study of Asian American Health

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Asian Community Block Center for the Study of Asian American Health The New York University School of Medicine’s Centers for Health Disparities Research received funding in 2003 from the National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities to establish the nation’s first Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH). … Read more

Art Therapy: A Way to Improve Our Health

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For more than 50 years, art therapy has been in existence in the United States and Europe. What about in Asia? Although there has been an emergence of a movement to practice art therapy in Asia, art therapy is not yet fully established and recognized. For example, in Japan, there is currently no graduate schools … Read more