Arts, Culture, and Creativity as a Strategy for Countering the Negative Social Impacts of Immigration and Stress and Gentrification

Arts, Culture, and Creativity as a Strategy for Countering the Negative Social Impacts of Immigration and Stress and Gentrification

Authors: Carolyn Leung Rubin, EdD, Virginia Rall Chomitz, PhD, Cynthia Woo, MA, Giles Li, MPA, Susan Koch-Weser, ScD, and Peter Levine, PhD

This article looks at the role that arts, culture, and creativity play in promoting social cohesion and community well-being. It presents research on the role that a community arts center plays in an ethnic enclave that is under the stress of immigration and gentrification.

Keywords: arts, public health, creative arts, arts in public health, placemaking, immigration, stress, gentrification, Chinatown, community arts, Asian, community-based participatory research, partnerships/coalitions, qualitative research