Day With(out) Art - Reflections: Albert Velasco

The Folk Art Museum sponsored an annual Visual AIDS artist talk and presentation for Day With(out) Art to the students of La Guardia High School writing class; after returning to La Guardia, the students drew on this experience to create their own poetry book.

"My AIDS diagnosis in 1987 has informed and transformed my entire outlook on Art and art making. Art has been a virtual "life preserver" which I've clung to in a turbulent, dark sea as my voyage through life is steered by the course of this disease. Creating and expressing the journey I'm on gives my life meaning, and an imperative to valiantly fight to use whatever precious amount of time I have to explore my full potential as an artist and human being, today and everyday."