APRA was established for the benefit of those students, scholars, curators, collectors, writers, and members of the general public who have a constructive curiosity or scholarly or professional interest in Piper's work and life. APRA is maintained as a document of Piper's activities in her three chosen areas of specialization: art, philosophy and yoga. The purpose of APRA is fourfold:

(a) to promote a fuller and clearer understanding of Piper's work in each one of these areas through the demonstration and documentation of their interconnection and unity in the environment, personal circumstances, and history of Piper's daily life;

(b) to encourage those constructively interested researchers who are understandably reluctant to intrude on Piper's privacy to visit APRA in order to seek in-depth answers to their art-critical, philosophical, or biographical queries;

(c) to offer valuable resources, support, and/or collaboration to curators, dealers, or institutions wishing to exhibit, sell or publish Piper's work;

(d) to contribute over the long term to a more accurate, balanced, and complete comprehension of the conditions of production of Piper's entire body of work as a unified whole.