Visual AIDS Blog

Postcards From the Edge 2024

Submit an original, postcard sized artwork by Nov 17, 2023! → Read More

Art And Science, For All Our Health's Sake!

Earlier this summer, twelve artists living with HIV presented newly commissioned artwork as part of the HIV Science as Art exhibition at the IAS Conference on HIV Science in Brisbane, Australia. We asked Riss, a Visual AIDS Artist Member living near Brisbane, to report back on the project. → Read More

New Oral History: José Luis Cortés + Eric Rhein

Watch a new oral history recording and an additional video featuring artists José Luis Cortés and Eric Rhein. → Read More

Open Call for Artist Member Submissions for "Pandemic Media"

Submit new work for "Pandemic Media", the Oct-Nov web gallery → Read More

Leadership Updates | Visual AIDS Seeks Executive Director

Visual AIDS is seeking an ambitious and visionary new Executive Director to continue and expand our commitment to preserving and honoring the work of artists living with HIV and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. → Read More

Call for Papers | Makeshift Historiographies: Case Studies in HIV/AIDS Cultural Archives

Calling art historians, archivists, and curators! Jackson Davidow (Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Harvard Art Museums) and Kyle Croft (Interim Director, Visual AIDS) will host a session at the CAA focused on archival strategies for HIV and AIDS art histories. Abstracts due August 31 → Read More

New Oral History: Curtis Carman + Milton Garcia Ninja

Watch a new oral history recording plus two additional short videos featuring Curtis Carman and Milton Garcia Ninja. → Read More

(What Good is This Tool?)

Tannon Reckling interviews activist/filmmaker Leo Herrera, exploring the ways AI tools could be used in HIV and AIDS activism today. → Read More

Introducing our 2023 Research Fellows

Announcing our 2023 Research Fellows: Adam Barbu, Dylan Huw, Eduardo Carrera, María José Maldonado, Megan N. Liberty, and Ruby Sutton. → Read More

Call for Video Proposals: Day With(out) Art 2024

Visual AIDS invites artists and filmmakers to submit proposals for new video works to be produced and distributed to over 150 venues worldwide for Day With(out) Art 2024. EXTENDED DEADLINE: JULY 9 → Read More