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Collective Stewardship: Visual AIDS + NYU Fales Library
National Academy of Design
Date:
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from 6:30pm–8:00pm
Price: Free
Visual AIDS RecommendsLocation:
National Academy of Design519 W 26th St
Floor Two
New York, NY , 10001
United States
Slides documenting artwork by Frederick Weston (1946–2020) in the Visual AIDS Archive. Photo: Giulia Armentano
Join us for an in-person conversation featuring Kyle Croft (Executive Director, Visual AIDS) and Nicholas Martin (Curator for the Arts & Humanities, NYU Special Collections), and moderated by writer and organizer Theodore (ted) Kerr, for an inside look at the work at the vital archives preserved by Visual AIDS and NYU's Fales Library & Special Collections.
Collective Stewardship is the National Academy of Design’s series of free, in-person and virtual, educational public programs that focus on artist and architect foundations and the different approaches and solutions for the planning and preservation of their legacies for the public good and future public accessibility. The ongoing series of talks, panels, and workshops features living legacy projects and foundations with public missions, coupling purposeful storytelling with specific information about the preparation and tools needed to build an accessible archive.
Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS preserves and honors the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. The organization produces and presents visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums, and publications, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. The Visual AIDS Artist Registry—open to all HIV+ artists—is the largest database of works by artists with HIV/AIDS, offering a unique resource to inspire and educate the public. Visual AIDS assists HIV+ artists while preserving a visual record of their work and helping them reach new audiences.
NYU Fales Library comprises over 350,000 volumes of books and other printed materials; more than 11,000 linear feet of archives, and over 100,000 individual and unique media elements. The Fales materials complement the collection by supplying rare or fine editions of text and original copies of media, or by prospectively collecting in areas of historical and cultural interest. For example, the Downtown Collection, founded in 1994, comprises hundreds of archives, printed materials and media documenting the downtown arts scene that evolved in SoHo and the Lower East Side from the 1960s through to the present, and the Riot Grrrl Collection documents the evolution of the feminist, punk youth movement Riot Grrrl in the 1990s, as well as adjacent queer and feminist activism and performance emerging from or inspired by Riot Grrrl.
RESERVATIONS: Admission is free but reservations are required. To make a reservation for this program, click HERE. The program will begin at 6:30 PM.
ACCESSIBILITY: This venue is fully accessible to wheelchairs. To request a free ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning service, email your request at least three weeks in advance of the event to info@nationalacademy.org.
About the Speakers
Kyle Croft is the Executive Director of Visual AIDS. In his six years with the organization, he has worked to preserve the legacies of artists lost to AIDS and support a global community of artists living with HIV. He co-edited Visual AIDS’s recent monograph on the late artist Darrel Ellis, as well as volumes on Frederick Weston and the curator William Olander. He holds an MA in Art History from Hunter College.
Theodore (ted) Kerr is a writer and organizer whose work focuses on public health, memorialization, and community. He is a founding member of the collective, What Would an HIV Doula Do?, and co-author of We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (with Alexandra Juhasz, Duke University Press, 2022).
Nicholas Martin is the Curator for the Arts & Humanities at NYU Special Collections, where he oversees the archives held in the Downtown Collection, the Riot Grrrl Collection, and the New York University Special Collections. He is a Past President of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. Recent publications include contributions to Christopher D'Arcangelo (Kunstverein / Artists Space, 2023) and Luxe, Calme, Volupté (SJ Weiler Press and Candice Madey, 2023).