Saturday November 30, 2024
Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me...
Seven new videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today — streaming now at video.visualaids.org!
Thursday October 24, 2024
Announcing: Finding Aids for the Visual AIDS Archive
In early 2024, Visual AIDS hired our first full-time Community Archivist. An integral part of the Visual AIDS team, Jacs Rodriguez holds a Master of Library and Information Sciences degree from Pratt Institute and has worked to increase access to the holdings of the Visual AIDS Archive. In this post, Jacs announces two new finding aids they created this fall.
Monday September 16, 2024
Postcards from the Edge 2025: Call for artwork
Our open call for artwork is now live! Submission deadline: Friday, November 22
September 18, 2024
Keiko Lane
Uncovering
Keiko Lane reflects on the artwork of her friend Cory Roberts-Auli (1963–1996), whose collaborative paintings often used blood as an artistic medium. One of these haunting works is featured on the cover of Lane's memoir Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art, out this week from Duke University Press.
August 8, 2024
Theodore Kerr
Don’t Mourn Consecrate: Talking about Juan González’s historic public art
On October 19, 2023, Theodore Kerr, Leah Sweet, and Nicholas Martin hosted a long table discussion about Juan González’s 1987 installation 'Don’t Mourn Consecrate.' Installed in the storefront windows of the Grey Art Gallery, 'Don’t Mourn' was one of the first public artworks to engage with the AIDS crisis in the US. This transcript documents the discussion, including remarks from six invited presenters as well as audience responses.
August 1, 2024
Teo Pfahler
Pandemic Publications: On AIDS, COVID, and Books
Matteo Pfahler reflects on Pandemics + Books: Publishing HIV/AIDS in the Early COVID Era, an online event from October 2023 that invited authors of HIV-related books with early COVID publication dates to come together and discuss their work, the power of history, and pandemic grief.
June 27, 2024
Theodore Kerr
Public Garden, 16 Commerce Street: Anthony Pellino and his 1983 plan for an AIDS Memorial
Theodore Kerr interviews designer Anthony Pellino about Public Garden, 16 Commerce Street, a park proposal he created as a student at The New School in 1983 that was designed to serve, in part, as an AIDS memorial—currently the earliest known plan for an AIDS memorial in the world.
Announcements
Saturday November 30, 2024
Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me...
Seven new videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today — streaming now at video.visualaids.org!
Thursday October 24, 2024
Announcing: Finding Aids for the Visual AIDS Archive
In early 2024, Visual AIDS hired our first full-time Community Archivist. An integral part of the Visual AIDS team, Jacs Rodriguez holds a Master of Library and Information Sciences degree from Pratt Institute and has worked to increase access to the holdings of the Visual AIDS Archive. In this post, Jacs announces two new finding aids they created this fall.
Monday September 16, 2024
Postcards from the Edge 2025: Call for artwork
Our open call for artwork is now live! Submission deadline: Friday, November 22