2025, Wenxuan Xue
About “Art Breaks”
Pao Arts Center, in collaboration with BCNC Family Services, welcomes Boston-based theater and performance artist Wenxuan Xue as our Artist-in-Residence. Over a six-session workshop series, Art Breaks, Wenxuan will guide BCNC staff and childcare professional in exploring creativity, art-based self-care, and cultural identity, to foster stronger connections and a deeper sense of belonging among those who support immigrant youth.
“I am very excited to learn BCNC and Pao Arts Center’s mission and then using creative ways to support staff behind the scenes.”
Workshops will include nonclinical therapeutic activities, offered in English and Chinese by the artist, ensuring multilingual accessibility. This initiative responds to high stress and burnout in youth-serving professions, equipping staff with arts and culture tools that support their work and well-being.
Together, Wenxuan, in collaboration with Pao Arts Center and BCNC Family Services, aims to cultivate community healing through art.
Wenxuan Xue
Wenxuan Xue is a Boston-based theater and performance artist, curator, and educator with Han Chinese lineage from Shaanxi and Hebei, China. They create ritual performance for honoring and imagining ancestral lineage of, by, and for femme, queer, diasporic, and Asian American communities towards collective healing. They are currently developing their solo performance, becoming ancestral mud 成为泥土, a love letter to their ancestral village and the abundant femme spiritual practices intimately rooted in the soil of Shaanbei.
Photo credit: Cat Lent