Amy Jean Porter Tote

Visual AIDS inaugural Print+ Tote Bag begins with Amy Jean Porter's playful tote bag.

Amy Jean Porter's Statement:

AIDS awareness is serious. There's too much at stake not to spend our greatest efforts on education and prevention. Sex, however, need not be serious, and is perhaps the best comic foil to the traumas of life. I was honored to be asked to contribute to the broadside project and decided to think upon the humor and fun of sex. Humor can be a sneaky, excellent way to open up ways to talk about the most serious of issues. I advocate the avoidance of skunk sex at all costs. Safer sex, on the other hand, is awesome. - Amy Jean Porter

Amy Jean Porter is an artist who grew up in Oklahoma and Arizona and currently lives in New Haven, Conn. Porter has drawn over one thousand species of animals for her ongoing project "All Species, All the Time." Individual series within the project include "North America Mammals Speak the Truth and Often Flatter You Unnecessarily," and "Freaked Out Monkeys in the Trees." Her drawings have been published in Cabinet and Flaunt magazines and McSweeney's, and exhibited in galleries across the United States and Europe. Her work is represented by Lisa Boyle Gallery in Chicago and g-module in Paris.