VISUAL AIDS bi-monthly series invites our community of artists, art lovers, AIDS activists, and beyond to engage with the Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry through artist talks and conversations connected to our web galleries. This month’s program will feature a discussion between Jennell Strong, Joe de Hoyos, and Richard Jeffreys, as they contemplate what a world with a cure for HIV could look like.
In the first half of Into the Registry, a small cohort of Artist Members will share recently created artworks with the public. For this program, we will hear from multi-media artist and educator Glammy Rose Spencer and artist and designer Lucas Josué Núñez Saavedra.
In the second half of the program, the curator of our current web gallery will elaborate on the inspiration informing their selection of artworks from our Artist+ Registry, a database of work by artists living with HIV, and those who are no longer with us. The curator will be joined by several other artists, creatives, and thinkers to discuss relevant themes in the web gallery.
For this iteration of the series, curator Jennell Strong will lead a conversation connected to her current web gallery, Speculative Non-Fiction. She will be joined by collage artist and Visual AIDS artist member Joe De Hoyos and activist Richard Jeffreys, Basic Science, Vaccines, and Cure Project Director at Treatment Action Group (TAG). Together they will share a conversation about the ongoing fight for an HIV/AIDS cure from both a scientific and cultural angle. They will discuss the status of recent cure trials and studies, as continuously documented by Jeffreys, as well as the social impact that a cure could have for people living with HIV.
Into the Registry: An Artist Member and Community Space (August 2022) by Visual AIDS Thu, August 25, 2022 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT THIS IS A FREE ONLINE EVENT
P.S. Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy because AIDS is not over. Our programs are always free and open to the public, thanks to the generosity of individuals like you
