Visual AIDS Blog

In Memoriam: Geoffrey Hendricks

Memories and tributes for Visual AIDS' Board Member and friend Geoffrey Hendricks (1931-2018) → Read More

Visual AIDS is hiring a Development Associate!

We are looking to welcome a full-time Development Associate who is enthusiastic about helping Visual AIDS grow, and who is dedicated to support our mission. Application deadline July 1, 2018. → Read More

Visual AIDS is hiring an Artist+ Registry & Archive Associate!

We are looking to welcome a part-time Artist+ Registry & Archive Associate who who is dedicated and experienced with engaging contemporary art, supporting artists, working with archives, and advocating for people living with HIV. Application deadline July 1, 2018. → Read More

Visual AIDS in “Lost & Found: Safer Sex Activism” at ONE Gallery

The exhibition features Visual AIDS' ​Play Smart Trading Cards and several works from our ​Broadsides series. → Read More

Malik Gaines on Lyle Ashton Harris: “A dashing artist, full of energy, legendary.”

Malik Gaines discusses Visual AIDS Vanguard honoree Lyle Ashton Harris' creative practice and liveliness. → Read More

Barbara Hunt McLanahan on Steed Taylor: “Steed demonstrates a rare sensitivity”

Barbara Hunt McLanahan discusses Visual AIDS Vanguard honoree Steed Taylor's art and his longstanding support of Visual AIDS. → Read More

Rajendra Roy on Thomas Allen Harris: “Thomas is one of our great visual historians.”

Rajendra Roy discusses Visual AIDS Vanguard honoree Thomas Allen Harris' work as an artist and visual historian. → Read More

A Poetics of Being: Mykki Blanco’s STONES AND WATER WEIGHT

Uri McMillan responds to Mykki Blanco's video for ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS: "Stage kid, art school dropout, self-professed art freak, riot-girl, punk poet, indie rapper, cross-dresser poet extraordinaire: all of these audacious avatars adhere to and yet fail to fully capture the polyglot persona that is model-artist-performer-poet-rapper Mykki Blanco." → Read More

Lucas Michael: Black in Three Colors

Curator Adam Barbu reflects on work by Artist+ Member Lucas Michael: "Three absent colors enact a deferral of self-image and self-knowledge—a deferral of what we have been taught about who we are. In a world of cultural assimilation and outright erasure, this deferral is the performance of a wish to remain outside, divergent, and queer. Deferral is grace." → Read More

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, The HIV HOWLER: Transmitting Art and Activism, Deadline May 1, 2018

Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working within the communities that are most impacted by the virus. The HIV Howler seeks submissions from artists and activists who work in any artistic media and who want to use publication and printmaking for the transmission of art and ideas on HIV/AIDS. → Read More