Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
"In the work of artists living and archived by Visual AIDS, we can trace the beauty and the anger, the promise fulfilled and only hinted at."
Ann Northrop, journalist & activist
“I am here to tell you that more trials should be available for me and the rest of the poor. I have a home now, but about ten months ago I was still homeless.”--Phyllis Sharpe, United in Anger.
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"The audience applauded wildly, their red ribbons crushed in the process."
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In creating the public event that takes it's name from the poster, Visual AIDS saw an opportunity to use the “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me” poster and the response as a jumping off point for the larger conversation about activism now.
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Join us this year for our Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards and Spring Gala as we honor Bureau (founding partners Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett), Dr. Brian Saltzman, and Kia Michelle Benbow (Kia Labeija) at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art in NYC.
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"We can imagine HIV/AIDS activism to be like a collection of postcards sent from hell to the realm of possibility." - A. Anthony
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AIDS and Queer Craft
Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV
Making Idols For Survival, a workshop with Frederick Weston
