CHATogether at Eco Art on Island

Well­ness sem­i­nar and work­shop with Dr. Eunice Yuen (PhD, MD) and Dr. Dr. Rhi­ana Bakhit, pre­sent­ed by CHATo­geth­er from Yale School of Medicine.

Top­ics cov­ered include: Men­tal Health · Artis­tic Expres­sion · Envi­ron­men­tal Aware­ness. Includes dia­logue between artists and psy­chi­a­trists, and option­al one-on-one consultations.

Eco Art on Island, now on view from Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil, under­lines that cli­mate change is a glob­al health emer­gency, affect­ing mil­lions of chil­dren and their fam­i­lies. is asso­ci­at­ed with aggres­sion, increas­ing psy­chi­atric crises, self-harm and sui­cide. Cli­mate Change has pro­voked ​“eco-anx­i­ety” accord­ing to sev­er­al world-wide sur­vey con­duct­ed in chil­dren and ado­les­cents, includ­ing feel­ing ​“afraid” (57%), ​“help­less,” ​“guilty” (40%), and ​“angry” (52%), dis­em­pow­er­ment (70%), dis­turbed sleep and eat­ing, and believ­ing that adults did not take their opin­ions seri­ous­ly). At the indi­vid­ual lev­el, cli­mate change is con­sid­ered a social deter­mi­nant fac­tor inter­twined with pover­ty, racism, unsta­ble hous­ing, and dis­par­i­ty in access to edu­ca­tion, phys­i­cal and men­tal health, and oth­er basic needs.

Eco Art on Island invites artists to observe, expe­ri­ence, and respond to island ecolo­gies through cross-dis­ci­pli­nary cre­ative prac­tice. It rec­og­nizes that no one is exter­nal to the social, cul­tur­al, and eco­log­i­cal sys­tems shap­ing today’s cli­mate crisis. 

Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil is one of the 2025 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.