Visual AIDS Blog

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. DEADLINE: JUNE 25 → Read More

Pride Benefit Party at C'mon Everybody

Join us June 15 for our first ever Pride party, starring Christeene, Julie J, Morgan Bassichis, Constantine Jones, and That Matt! → Read More

Opening Thursday: No Bios at EFA Project Space

Our annual exhibition is curated by Isis Awad and features work by Jerome Caja (1958–1995), Chloe Dzubilo (1960–2011), Stevie Cisneros Hanley, Reverend Joyce McDonald, Sofia Moreno, Pamela Sneed, Tabboo!, and D’Angelo Lovell Williams → Read More

Launching "The Body As An Archive" Oral History Project

Watch the first two recordings featuring Shirlene Cooper, Lucas Michael, Jorge Bordello, and Beto Pérez. → Read More

A Personal Message from Executive Director, Esther McGowan

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Announcing: No Bios

Our summer exhibition, curated by Isis Awad, features drawing, painting, sculpture, and video—including never-before-exhibited artwork—from three generations of artists. → Read More

Sex, Drugs, and TV: Manifesting Harm Reduction through AIDS Activist Media

An online and in-person screening focusing on the contributions of AIDS activism to the harm reduction movement, presented in collaboration with Rosine 2.0. → Read More

Call for Research Proposals

Visual AIDS announces the second year of our research fellowship program, which supports original writing and scholarship about artists who have been lost to AIDS. Deadline: April 16, 2023 → Read More

Announcing Day With(out) Art 2023: 'Everyone I Know Is Sick'

Six new videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability will premiere on December 1, 2023 to mark World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art. → Read More

Remembering Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski (1957–2022)

In honor of the prolific AIDS activist videomaker Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski, we are sharing her final video work as well as tributes from Alexandra Juhasz, Jean Carlomusto, and Henry Szczepanski. → Read More