1999

This listing includes actions and programs from around the country. All listings are presented in alphabetical order by state. With apologies we place Visual AIDS events and New York City, our homebase, first. Visual AIDS supports the many organizations which are holding events for this years Day With(out) Art. The listings which follow have been sent in to us to be posted on this page and represent only a small number of events happening for this years Day With(out) Art. If you wish to attend/support an action or event in your community, please call your local venues to inquire about their programs. Please refer to the individual organizations for further information about their events.

• To be included in this year's listings, send a one paragraph description of your project/action be sure to include your contact information: phone number, email address, and web site address.

VISUAL AIDS EVENTS

Fiesta Del Siglo
New Year's Eve Benefit; proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS
A limited number of tickets at two tiers still available: buffet dinner at 8:30 and; 10:30pm dessert, champagne toast and dancing until 5m including light breakfast
For further information and to purchase tickets call Visual AIDS 212.627.9855

Location: 8th Ave. and 38th Street
Date:  Dec. 31 - Jan. 1, 2000 8:30pm - 5:00am
        call to purchase tickets 212.627.9855


Bodies of Resistance
- A group show of 16 international artists which addresses issues of the body   and disease in contemporary society
Aziz + Cucher, Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye, Rina Banerjee, Barton Lidice Benes
Ken Chu, Kendell Geers, Sunil Gupta, Skowmon Hastanan, Charles LeDray
Frank Moore, Chuck Nanney, Ernesto Pujol, Nancy Spero, Steed Taylor,
Albert J. Winn, Thomas Woodruff
Organized by Visual AIDS in collaboration with Real Art Ways:
Curated by Barbara Hunt

Location:  Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Date: Opening Reception Dec. 1, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
        Bus leaving from NYC 2pm, returning 9pm
        call to reserve a seat 212.627.9855


Postcards From The Edge
- Visual AIDS Benefit Sale of Postcard Size Artwork
  by Established and Emerging Artists

Location:  Alexander and Bonin Gallery, 132 10th Avenue (at 18th Street)
Date:  Sunday  December 5, 1999, 2pm - 5pm


Night Without Light
LOOK UP! on December 1, 1999 from 7:45PM - 8:00PM
Major buildings and landmarks turn off their lights to commemorate World AIDS Day and Day With(out)Art, including:

The Empire State Building, Macy's Harold Square, United Nations Building, St. Patricks Cathedral, Trump Palace, The Woolworth Building, The Channin Building, 545 Park Avenue, New York Life Building, MetLife Tower, Con Edison Building, Tall Ship "Peking" on pier 16 at Fulton Street, Grand Central Terminal, The Sohmer Building 170 Fifth Avenue, 450 Lexington Avenue, 230 Park Avenue, The Plaza Hotel, Verrazano Narrows Bridge, One Centre Street(Manhattan Municipal Building), The Crowne Building and Fifth Avenue Snow Flake, 70 Pine Street, George Washington Bridge, 90 West Street, Forbes Inc.,Crowne Plaza Manhattan Hotel, Manhattan Mall, World FInancial Center Winter Garden and WFC Towers, 570 Lexington Avenue, 599 Lexington Avenue

Moscow TV & BC Tower, Russia, observes NWL from 19:45 - 20:00


NEW YORK CITY

Out of the Darkness
- 8th Annual rally held by American Run for the End of AIDS(AREA) will begin
with a reception at 6:30pm, program at 7:00pm and candlelight march at 8:15 to City Hall Park.
Demonstrate support and compassion for those living with HIV/AIDS.
AREA continues to advocate for the use of condoms and clean needles because they save lives.
for further info call AREA 212.580.7668 Location:  Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Sq. South @ Thompson
Date: Wednesday Dec. 1, 6:30pm


Creative Time
Day Without Art Web Action 1999
Prepare to take on the viral menace - AIDS. Day Without Art Web Action informs and unites individuals, via the Internet, over the local and global impact of HIV/AIDS.
Location: Web - http://www.creativetime.org/dwa/


Art in the Age of AIDS
Franklin Furnace
Pieces by Frank Green, "The Scarlet Letters" and Ron Athey
"Four Scenes From a Harsh Life
Location: 212.766.2606 Netcaste, 5.00PM Eastern Standard - http://www.franklinfurnace.org


AIDS Vigil
All welcome to attend and show support at a 24-hour vigil and memorial reading of names at City Hall Park sponsored by Housing Works Location:  City Hall Park
Date: Wednesday Dec. 1, 12 am - 12pm


Poets & Preachers
ONE SCORE: SERMONS IN THE AGE OF A.I.D.S
The Kitchen
- Sermons in the Age of AIDS is the first installment of Poets & Preachers,a new literature series that explores the performance as liturgical form, the sermon as literary form, and the audience as congregation. Poets & preachers of various persuasions gather for ten rounds of "The Word and other words".
Open mike.
for further info call The Kitchen 212.255.5793
Location:  The Kitchen, 512 W19th Street, New York, NY 10011
Date: Wednesday Dec. 1, 5 - 7pm Free


Memorial
The Museum of Modern Art mourns the great loss of life AIDS has wrought on the Arts community by offering a listing of artists and filmakers who have died in the last year.
Location:  MOMA lobby, 11 W 53 Street, 10019 212.708.9400
Date:  December 1


Artist and Students/Art and Poetry
The Museum celebrates New York hiv+ artist Rubin Gonzales by presenting his mixed media assemblages. Gonzales will discuss his work and experience of living with HIV/AIDS with students from LaGuardia HS and the students will write poems inspired by the experience.
Location:  The Museum of American Folk Art
Two Lincoln Square, NY NY 10023-6214 212.595.9533 www.forkartmuseum.org Date:  December 1, 1999


Walking in Beauty
A Native American Perspective on Health by Lori Arviso Alvord, MD(Dine)
Location: National Museum of the American Indian 1.800.242.NMAJ
Date:  December 2, 5pm Book Signing in Museum Gift Shop (2nd fl), 6:30pm lecture in Auditorium (Basement Level)1999


Unknown Waters
Made of papier mache and mixed media, Michelle Muhlbaum created Unknown Waters in 1999. According to the artist, "this piece represents the struggle with disease and death that we all encounter at some point in our lives. I used found objects along with mostly natural materials from the earth and the ocean. The boat-like form symbolizes how we are still floating in unknown waters hoping for the ultimate cure." Unknown Waters will remain on view at Yeshiva University Museum through the end of December 1999. 212.960.5390
Location:  Yeshiva University Museum, 2520 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC 10033
Date: Wednesday Dec. 1 - 30, 1999


The Jewish Museum
This year, The Jewish Museum has created a gallery guide to selected ritual and art objects currently on display that illustrate traditional and contemporary responses to healing, mourning, memory, and activism. We believe that Jewish visual culture inspires reflection and action to what continues to be a critical health care issue. To view an online version of the gallery guide, please visit our web site at www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Location:  1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, NYC 212.423.3200
Date: through the month of December, 1999


Paper Mural
El Museo del Barrio presents hiv+ artist Jose L. Cortes "Paper Mural". Measuring 12' x 45ı, this dramatic painting highlights Chicano and Puerto Rican role models. This exhibit is up thru February 2000. The museum is open Wednesday thru Sunday 11am - 5pm.BR> Location:  El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue at E 104 St, The museum is open Wednesday thru Sunday 11am - 5pm. 212.831.7272 Date: now through February 2000


The Politics of Sensation: Censorship and the Arts
A discussion presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School. Panel includes: J.M.Gutman, writer and critic, moderator; F.Abrams, lawyer, A. Gillies, Dir. Warhol Foundation, E. Jones, Dir NAACP Legal Defense Fund, L Siegel, critic, New Republic; C. Stimpson, Dean, NYU Graduate Sch Arts and Sciences; W. WIlliams, Chair, Department of Photopgraphy, Haverford College.
Location: Vera List Center at The New School, 66 W 12 St NYC
Free. SEating limijted. Reservations required: T212.229.5353 F212.2295120
Date:   December 1, 1999 7:30PM


Day Without Art at the Museum of Television and Radio
A screening of seven AIDS related programs which addres the complex issues raised by the AIDS pandemic, including misconceptions about the transmission of the disease, discrimination agains persons living with HIV/AIDS, and new medical research. Many more programs will be offered at private consoles.
Location:  The Museum of Television and Radio
25 W 52 Street, NYC, 10019-6101 212.621.6800 Date:  Wednesday December 1, 12 noon - 6PM


Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum joins the nationwide arts community in "A Day With(out) Art: A Day of Action and Mourning in Response to the AIDS Crisis." Volunteers from the Gay Men's Health Crisis will be in the Museum Lobby to provide information on AIDS prevention and support groups.
 
Location:  945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
Date:  Wednesday  December 1, 1999, 12pm - 6pm


CONNECTICUT

Bodies of Resistance
A group show of 15 international artists which addresses issues of the body and disease in contemporary society
Real Art Ways presents Bodies of Resistance, organized collaboratively with Visual AIDS
Curated by Barbara Hunt

Location:  Real Art Ways, 26 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 860.2321006
Date: Opening Reception Dec. 1, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
        
        call to reserve a seat 212.627.9855


Celebration of Life
AIDS organizations in the greater Hartford area join together in offering a memorial service in observance of World AIDS Day

Location:  Real Art Ways, 26 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 860.2321006
Date: Dec. 1, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
        


FLORIDA

A Celebration of Life
Join us for an evening of awareness, reflection and dialogue. Included: performance of an original musical choreopoem by the Westcoast Youth Theatre Troupe, A Celebration of Life sing-a-long and presentation by persons with AIDS speakers bureau.

Location:  the courtyard at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota 941.359.5762
Date:  December 1 1999, 8pm - 10pm


ILLINOIS

Chicago Cultural Center
A symbolic artistic installation set with stage sections and unfinished works of art memorializes those who have died and offers a site for reflection. Two performances address the continuing pandemic: Noon: School Street Movement and the Joel Hall Dancers will present a 50 minute AIDS awareness performance; 1:30 the Tempo Players presents a musical sampler of current and past Broadway hits.

Location:  78 E Washington Street in the GAR Rotunda
Date:  December 1 1999, 11am - 5pm


The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
School of the Art Institute of Chicago will host a group of programs and projects that worked to educate and remember those affected by HIV/AIDS. including: · Shrouding the façade of the 112 S. Michigan building with black cloth on December 1st. · "Guest List For A Cocktail Party:" a lecture on the strategies deployed by drug companies to market their products to those with HIV/AIDS, by Gregg Bordowitz. The event will take place on November 30th from 4:15 PM -5:45 PM in the Flaxman Screening Room (112 S. Michigan). · A shrouding of artworks in the Student Union Galleries on December 1st. · Tables with information on the epidemic and health concerns in all of the School's public lobbies (Columbus, 112 S. Michigan, and Champlain) on December 1st. · A display of a portion of the NAMES Memorial Quilt in the lobby of the 112 S. Michigan building on December 1st. Two days of educational programming on SAICTV and RADIO on the days leading up to Day Without Art -November 29th, and 30th. · A day without programming on SAICTV on the Day Without Art. -SAIC RADIO will read the names of people who have died from AIDS related illnesses. · A day long screening of videos dealing with issues of HIV/AIDS on December 1st -Flaxman Screening Room (lobby of 112 S. Michigan Ave.) from 12-4 PM. if you are interested in helping with the shrouding of the 112 S. Michigan building (we will install November 30th from 8:30 AM - 5:00 Pm and de-install on December 2, 1999 from 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM), for further information please contact Mark Clarson 312.899.7460

Location:  112 W. Michigan
Date:  December 1 1999, all day


MAINE

In Support
One Day special installation symbolizing the support, knowledge and empowerment vital to the fight aganst AIDS.

Location:  Institute of Contemporary ARt at Main College of Art, ICA@MECA, 522 Congress Street, Portland, MA 775.5098
Date:  December 1 1999, 11am- 4pm


MINNESOTA

Selected Films
A program of selected films in observance of World AIDS Day. Please call for scheduling information: 612.375.7619

Location:  Walker Art Center 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN
Date:  Wednesday December 1, 1999, 2pm - 5pm


MISSOURI

The Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia Observes World AIDS Day
-Midday Gallery Lecture and Slide Presentation, "Day With(out) Art", 12:15 p.m., European and American Gallery -Covering Abstract Variation #5 by Ernest Trova, located in front of the Museum -Covering Yielding Spire by John Brough Miller, located on Lowry Mall -Replacing the Museum's website with a page that acknowledges World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art: http://www.research.missouri.edu/museum -Distributing red ribbons to commemorate all who have lost their lives to AIDS Other University of Missouri Campus and Columbia Community Activities include: -An HIV/AIDS information table located in Brady Commons, UMC -Free confidential HIV testing for MU students at the Student Health Center. For more information on testing contact Maggie Ackerman, R.N.C. at 882-3280 -Free oral HIV tests throughout the day at the Columbia/Boone County Health Department at Broadway and Sixth Street. For further information contact Aimee Leonhard at (573)882-3591

Location:  Campus, University of Missouri-Columbia
Date:  Wednesday December 1, 1999


NEVADA

Pull up a Chair
A powerful, emotionally charged solo exhibition by Becky Trotter, featuring acrylic paintings of empty chairs, each one a testimonial to a friend who has passed on.

Location:  Grotto Gallery, Las Vegas Museum of Fine Arts, Sahara West library 9600 West Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas 89117
Date: December 1 1999 - January 23, 2000
         Opening reception Wed. Dec 1 5PM - 7PM


NEW JERSEY

Princeton University
The Princeton University Community will be highlighting the impact of AIDS on people's lives through events in the Arts which include: Student Coffee House with student performers and films with AIDS themes; candlelight vigil and outside speakers addressing health issues.  

Location:  Princeton Universtiy, Princeton, NJ for further info call (609) 258-5036
Date:  Wednesday  December 1, 1999, 12pm - 6pm


NEW YORK

Guest Artist to lead workshop

The Neuberger Museum of Art is hosting a special workshop in recognition of World AIDS Day. Photographer, Frank Jump of Visual AIDS will lead the workshop. Participants will work together to create a new panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt using photo transfer techniques. Jump, who photographs vintage signs, will provide images to be collaged into the final panel. Materials will be provided. Please call Jayne Warner at 914-251-6112 for more information and to reserve your space in the workshop.
Location:  Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase SUNY, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, 10577.
Date:  December 1, 1999, 4:30pm


College of New Rochelle
The public will have a chance to share their thoughts about AIDS by writing their feelings on large red ribbons, and then affixing these ribbons to a larger display that is in the shape of a human body. We have also designed paper placemats with facts about AIDS that will be handed out for people to take home and to peruse while they are eating their meals. We hope that this event will bring further AIDS awareness to those in our college community.  

Location:  College of New Rochelle, cafeteria
Date:  Wednesday  December 1, 1999, 4:30 - 7PM


Parrish Art Museum
Artist Paton Miller will conduct a session for young children and adults to commemorate lost loved ones through the language of visual art. Derived from the concept of Tibetan prayer flags, participants will paint banners which celebrate the family and friends they have lost. The flags will remain on view in the lobby throughout the week. For further info please call Ann Shengold, Public Program Coordinator 516.283.2118x20  

Location:  Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, NY 11968
Date:  Wednesday  December 1, 1999, 3:45pm


A Day With(out) Art -- At CUNY, Queens College
Beginning with a discussion of how AIDS is represented in the public domain and its impact on the community, students will explore how some artists present their concern about AIDS through art in public spaces. Public sculptures on campus will be covered with Back plastic for December 1.  

Location:  CUNY, Queens College, for further information please contact Rikki Asher email royce@pipeline.com
Date:  Wednesday  December 1, 1999


Geisha and AIDS Nightmare

Johnson Museum of Art marks the Day with the exhbition of a painting by Masami Teraoka. AIDS became a preoccupation of this painter in 1987 when the child of a close firend contracted the disease. Teraoka appropriates the images and styles of traditional Japanese art to speak of contemporary concerns. The painting will be on view in the museum lobby. for further info call Johnson Museum of Art 607.254.4563 or http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/currex/daywithoutart.html Location:  Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Date: November 24 - December 4


OHIO

If AIDS Never Happened
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art sponsors a panel disscussion on Clevelandıs WCPN public radio station²s Around Noon program. For further info call Program Manager-- Film and Video, Walker Art Center, 612.375.7619 Website: www.walkerart.org
Location: WCPN public radio station
Date:  December 1, noon


Columbus
Columbus art community observes DWA by placing the AIDS logo in their windows. Coordinated by Orbit design. Galleries such as the Mauritz gallery, ACME Art Company as well as shops such as Moda Verta alter their window displays each year. For more info contact Gina 221.2161 or orbitdesign@compuserve.com
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Date:  December 1,


PENNSYLVANIA

Philadelphia World AIDS Day/Day Without Art
Participants are invited to gather in Old City. After brief remarks from Mother's Pledge, an AIDS Fund program for families affected by HIV/AIDS, there will be a candlelight procession through Old CIty to the Painted Bride Art Center where the evening will culminate in a program featuring area visual, performing and literary artists. Proceeds collected at local cultural sites on World AIDS Day go to The Working Fund for Philadelphia Area Artists. For more info call the AIDS Fund at (215) 731-9255 or Fleisher Art Memorial at (215)922-3456. Location:  a walk from Old City to the Painted Bride Art Center
Date:  Wednesday  December 1, 1999, 5pm


RHODE ISLAND

URI Department of Art to Commemorate International AIDS Day
KINGSTON, R.I.--Imagine a world without paintings, sculptures or photographs. A world without art. This type of world will soon exist temporarily on URI's campus as part of an international awareness program.
Joining the international community, student interns of the Fine Arts Center Galleries will provide their own interpretation of the effects upon artistic life, caused by the ongoing AIDS epidemic. The following campus locations: Quinn Hall, The Mulitcultural Center, The URI Library, 193 Degrees Coffee House in the Student Union, the URI Galleries and various outdoor campus locations will be tagged with a black cardboard symbol for Day Without Art". A video documenting the installation and comments from the local public will be shown in 193 Degrees Coffee House, on the second floor of the Student Union from 11am - 12 noon.
Location:  URI Department of Art, 105 Upper College Road, Suite 1, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 Phone 401.874.2775
Date:  Wednesday  December 1, 1999, 11am - 12 noon


TENNESSEE

Eric Rhein's Leaves
Solo show of an ongoing project in which wire leaf drawings are offered as a metphorical tribute
to individuals who have died of AIDS related complications.
The artist will be present at the gallery and will give a lecture at Memphis College of Art.
 
Location:  Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, 4540 Popular Ave, Memphis, TN
Date:  Wednesday  December 1, 10 am - 5:30pm
     call for further info: (901)767-3800
     


TEXAS

Visual AIDS Posters and National AIDS Memorial Quilt
A display of Visual Aids posters from previous years, a student art show, and in conjunction with Dec. 1 Day Without Art there will be three 12' X 12' panels of the National Aids Memorial Quilt on display in the SFA Art Gallery. The panels will remain on display through the end of the semester.

Location: Kingwood College Art Gallery, SFA Bldg. 1st floor 20000 Kingwood Drive Kingwood, TX 77339 (281.312.1534
Date:  December 1, 1999 though the end of the semester M-F 8-4.30PM


Scott Burton Sculpture Installation
Granite Settee, 1983
Polished granite
This work by American sculptor Scott Burton has been reinstalled in the Museum's Sculpture Garden on the occasion of Day With(Out) Art in memory of the artist, who died at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1989. The installation is meant to recognize all of those in the artistic community who have been affected by HIV and AIDS and to acknowledge the significant cultural diminishment that has resulted. <

Location: Dallas Museum of Art Sculpture Garden
Date:  December 1999

INTERNATIONAL

CANADA

Memorial Service and Candlelight vigil
Edmonton Art Gallery together with HIV Edmonton, the Interfailth Assoc. on AIDS, Living Positive
and Feather of Hope, host a memorial service and candlelight vigil. The Edmonton
Art Gallery will drape a number of artworks in black cloth as a sign of mourning and a symbol
of the wealth of creativity that has been lost as a result of AIDS

Location: Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta (780.422.6223
Date:  December 1, 1999 6 - 8PM


SOUTH AFRICA

Presentation of AIDS Memorial Quilt and Statement of Conscience
during the opening ceremonies of the Parliament of the World's Religions. Largest display
of the quilt in SA, over 1000 panels to be presented. Statement of Conscience is a petition
aimed at ending the persecution and discrimination against people living with AIDS.
To add your name send name, title and address to: soc@riverfund.org

Location:  Company Gardens 10AM and procession to the Good Hope Center for Opening Parliament Ceremonies, Capetown, SA
Date:  Sunday  December 1, 1999