For LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN 2021, Visual AIDS, Fire Island Artist Residency, Positive Women's Network — USA, The Well Project, and Dieu Donne continued our longstanding collaboration to do something special for women and femmes living with HIV.
Unable to gather at Dieu Donne for our usual papermaking workshops, we invited over 75 artists across the US to decorate handmade paper hearts at home. Participants included Visual AIDS Artist Members, Fire Island Artist Residency alum, Dieu Donné staff and Studio Residents, and members of the Women's Empowerment Art Therapy Group.
Together, we decorated over 400 cards that were mailed to women and femmes with HIV around the world, reaching over twenty countries. See below for a selection of Valentines created for LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN 2021.