Archive of Past DWA Projects

You will find here examples of successful past DWA programs from organizations and artists. This listing demonstrates that AIDS/arts programmming can be innovative, adventurous and educational. These model projects show how Day With(out) Art can successfully facilitate debate about HIV/AIDS, promote HIV risk reduction and attract new audiences to the arts. Please feel free to scroll through these listings to come up with ideas for a project for your organization, school or community. Projects are listed in paragraph form, with links to Project Outlines, and venue web sites where applicable.

Many thanks to the organizations which have shared their successfully completed projects

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CUNY-Re. The Student Art Gallery
The day before December 1, the students and I cover the glass doors of the gallery with black paper and display a Visual AIDS flier on top of the paper. We cover the walls of the gallery with black paper also and place one flier in the center.

This created a very dramatic effect the next day, and the public always notices and comments through out the day.

LIGHT IN THE HEAD*
a commemorative work-in-progress
by Jan Gilbert in observance of Day Without Art/World Aids Day

*". . . The story of empathy and tragedy. The story of risk to fulfill desire. The story of a return to continuity. The story of water flowing without effort. The story of killing a bird. The story of resenting. The story of walking through days in the light."

from LIGHT IN THE HEAD by Andrew Forster

High Museum of Art
Atlanta, Georgia
World AIDS Day/"Day With(out) Art"
Projects 1989-1998

The more prominent and innovative projects in the last 10 years are listed below. In all cases, Public Relations and Community Relations departments of the museum were enlisted to promote the projects to the public and press. Red ribbons, comment books, and AIDS-related literature were provided each year.

The Frick Collection
New York, NY

December 1, 1999, marks the 11th anniversary of DAY WITH(OUT) ART, an international day of action and mourning in response to the continuing AIDS crisis. The Frick Collection once again fully supports the aims of DAY WITH(OUT) ART - to increase awareness about AIDS and the pressing social issues it raises, and to promote action to end the AIDS crisis - but the Trustees and staff of the museum feel that greater consolation for all is to be found in the contemplation of a work of art than in its removal.