Day With(out) Art: Radiant Presence

In recognition of World AIDS Day, Day With(out) Art was launched by Visual AIDS in 1989 as a day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. In conjunction with its 26th anniversary, Visual AIDS announces Radiant Presence, a digital slideshow with images from Visual AIDS’ Artist + Registry, the largest database of works by artists with HIV/AIDS. Visual AIDS has worked with nine influential artists, activists, and curators—Bill Arning, Ian Alteveer, Chris Vargas, Rae Lewis-Thornton, Mark S. King, Allen Frame, Maria Mejia, Jack Mackenroth, and Kimberly Drew—to create new and provocative work about the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic by focusing on the issues of today. The digital slideshow will be on view in the SAIC Sullivan Galleries, 7th floor meeting & screening room, and is presented in collaboration with ExTV at SAIC. Learn more at www.visualaids.org. Image: Juan Rivera, Untitled (Keith Haring), c. 1985