We enable public dialogue and scholarship around AIDS and contemporary art through artist projects, events, and publications.
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Annual Project
Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards (VAVA)
VAVA honors individuals who strengthen the cultural history of art activism and reinforce the mission of Visual AIDS.
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Print+ Edition
Play Smart
​Play Smart are fun and sexy trading cards that promote harm reduction, HIV testing and post-exposure prophylaxis.
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Annual Project
Benefit Print Editions
Limited editions prints by contemporary artists to benefit Visual AIDS
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Print+ Edition
Tote Bags
Carry your awareness! Tote bags are a fashionable and practical way to encourage HIV awareness and conversation.
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Print+ Edition
Print+ Editions & Broadsides
FREE Artist designed posters, stickers, postcards, balloons, and buttons to raise AIDS awareness
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Exhibitions
Visual AIDS produces contemporary art exhibitions to raise public dialogue around HIV/AIDS since 1995
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Public Events
Using art as a catalyst, Visual AIDS works with various communities to present public events about HIV, activism and social justice.
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Annual Project
Curatorial Residency
One month residency program co-sponsored by Visual AIDS and Residency Unlimited
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Visual AIDS Artist Registry & The Archive Project
The Artist Registry and Archive Project is the largest database and registry of works by visual artists with HIV/AIDS.
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Online
Visual AIDS Web Gallery
Monthly online gallery, featuring Visual AIDS artist members selected by guest curators.
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Annual Project
Artists+ Material Grants
The Artists+ Material Grants program supports HIV+ artists by providing funds for art supplies.
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Actions
The Red Ribbon Project
The iconic Red Ribbon was created by the Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus in 1991.
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Annual Project
Day Without Art
December 1st is Day With(out) Art, held each year as an international day of action and awareness in response to the AIDS crisis.
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Annual Project
Postcards from The Edge
Exhibition and benefit sale of thousands of anonymous postcard-sized works of art by famous and emerging artists.
