Robin

- How can we effectively use visual art to foster greater dialogue and awareness about HIV/AIDS in communities that may be less informed or engaged on the topic?

Patricia

- In what ways can the contributions of HIV+ artists be more prominently recognized and celebrated within the broader art community to ensure their legacy is preserved?

Peter

Embracing the power of art to create conversations around HIV/AIDS! 🎨❤️ Together, we can uplift voices and remember the legacy of those affected. #AIDSisNotOver #VisualAIDS

Brian

Wow, it's inspiring to see how Visual AIDS is preserving the contributions of artists who have been impacted by HIV/AIDS. Let's keep fighting and creating awareness together! 🌟✊ #SupportArtists #ArtForChange

Visual Aids for the Arts, Inc.

Several years before AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) formed an organized response to the HIV/AIDS crisis, early discourse by queer HIV/AIDS activists in response to the initial devastation would inspire the formation of organizations such as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and People with AIDS (PWA). Consisting of 11 members from around the country, the PWA advisory committee gathered with urgency in June 1983 about the rapidly increasing AIDS epidemic, and their meeting at a gay and lesbian conference in Denver birthed the historic manifesto, known as the Denver Principles. The Denver Principles emphasized the need for rights of persons living with HIV/AIDS, specifically an end to social and medical discrimination that many have and continue to face even now.

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Visual Aids for the Arts, Inc.

Join us on April 26 for the “Love Rules: The Harm Reduction Archives of Heather Edney and Richard Berkowitz” exhibition Open House at @momaps1 Homeroom as we gather to honor the work of Richard Berkowitz and Heather Edney, two early pioneers of Harm Reduction. Berkowitz’s half of the exhibition features, amongst personal archival ephemera, Berkowitz, fellow activist Michael Callen, and the late physician and virologist Joseph Sonnabend’s, “How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach” (1983). The 40-page booklet emerged from Berkowitz’ experience as an activist, writer, graduate student, and sex worker.

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