Art as Healing is a collaborative zine published by a group of Asian/Asian American students and faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts University.

In the wake of the national surge in anti-Asian violence set off by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we came together to discuss how to support each other and our targeted communities. Our intensified awareness of the systemic absence of Asian American histories, sensibilities and realities in many U.S. institutions -- including those involved with art and art education -- led to our decision to create a zine as one way to give visibility to our diverse Asian American experiences. With the help of the Daynard Microgrants for Collaborations in Racial Justice, the zine was collectively planned and created over four months in 2021.

Contributing artists include Maxine Bell; Aidan Sky Chang; Amy Chu; Luna Doherty-Ryoke; Maria Fong; Hannah Kim; Quin Luong; John McKean; Ava Sakamoto; Priya Skelly; Kelly Tan; Martina Tan; Khanh Keith Truong; and Angela Wei. Professor Jean Wu and I contributed a short essay for the publication.

Special shoutout to Little Mountain Press in New York for doing a fabulous job of printing our zines. 2-color Risograph, 8.5 “ X 11”, edition of 130.