Visual AIDS Blog

Day With(out) Art Goes Virtual!

For Day With(out) Art 2020, Visual AIDS presents TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. → Read More

Frederick Weston 1946-2020

Visual AIDS is heartbroken to announce the passing of a beloved member of our family, the brilliant artist, poet and performer Frederick Weston. → Read More

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 4: Strutting to Stop Stigma

Rae Lewis-Thornton speaks to Mel Rattue about her comic, “Strutting to Stop Stigma" and Catwalk4Power, a group of women living with HIV who work to empower each other by organizing workshops and fashion shows. → Read More

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 3: Paco

Artist and HIV advocate Joey Terrill speaks with Carlo Quispe about comics as a tool for addressing fear and stigma in the gay community. They discuss what has changed—and what hasn’t—since the 1980s, and how comics can offer new forms of representation for queer Latinx communities. → Read More

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 2: Legalize Positivity

HIV criminalization activist Robert Suttle speaks with Inés Ixierda and Clio Sady about their comic Legalize Positivity. Together, they discuss how HIV criminalization codifies stigma, the origins of the prison-industrial complex, and how prisons perpetuate harm. → Read More

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 1: Just a Pill?

Announcing our new podcast! In the first episode, J. Amaro, A. Andrews, and Johnny Guaylupo discuss what it means to be living well with HIV. → Read More

"Ampler than Loneliness" Artist+ Member Interviews

To accompany our September 2020 web gallery, Ampler than Loneliness: Documenting Collective Resistance through HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, members of the Visual AIDS staff met with selected artists via Zoom to discuss their artworks and COVID-19’s impact on their lived experience and artistic practice. → Read More

Call for Submissions - Postcards from the Edge 2021 (Virtual)

After much consideration and guidance from experts in healthcare and leadership, Visual AIDS has decided to transition to a virtual event this year, and will hold the sale online in January 2021. → Read More

Are you a woman living with HIV who would like to receive a handmade card on Valentine’s Day as part of LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN?

Visual AIDS, Fire Island Artist Residency, Positive Women's Network — USA, The Well Project, and Dieu Donne are all collaborating to do something special for women living with HIV. → Read More

Journey Streams Interviews Artist+ Member Wayne Bennett for "Ampler than Loneliness"

Visual AIDS Archive Intern and guest curator Journey Streams speaks with artist member Wayne Bennett about his artwork, "Quantum Entanglement: The Spooky Action of Desire", featured in the September web gallery → Read More