A Day With (Out) Art: Visual AIDS Day Revisited
Artist, Rolando Chang Barrero calls out to all galleries, museums, and cultural institutions to participate in
A Day With (Out) Art Visual AIDS Day
A Day With (Out) Art Visual AIDS Day
on December 1, 2015
Dear friends,
The AIDS Crisis is not over! There are still increasing infection rates and mortalities worldwide, U.S., inclusive.
Will you help me to raise awareness and encourage testing?
Will you help me to raise awareness and encourage testing?
- An estimated 1.5 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2013, and an estimated 39 million people with AIDS have died worldwide since the epidemic began. More Statistics Here
- Contact Compass Community Center for list of services
Along with this year's "Calling of the Names" and the efforts of Compass Community Center's presentation of the AIDS Memorial Quilt (founded in 1987),
I am calling out to you to participate by honoring the memory of our friends and family by taking an active participatory role in A Day With (Out) Art Visual AIDS Day.
Please contact me and let me know what you will be doing to participate.
I will be creating a general list of events and actions for the general public to use as a reference.
Contact me at 786-521-1199, or by email at RCBfineart@gmail.com
I will be creating a general list of events and actions for the general public to use as a reference.
Contact me at 786-521-1199, or by email at RCBfineart@gmail.com
In loving memory of all lives lost and in the spirit of community,
Rolando Chang Barrero
Please read!
Day Without Art began on December 1, 1989 as the national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. To make the public aware that AIDS can touch everyone, and inspire positive action, some 800 U.S. art and AIDS groups participated in the first Day Without Art, shutting down museums, sending staff to volunteer at AIDS services, or sponsoring special exhibitions of work about AIDS. Since then, Day With(out) Art has grown into a collaborative project in which an estimated 8,000 national and international museums, galleries, art centers, AIDS service organizations, libraries, high schools and colleges take part.
In the past, "Visual AIDS" initiated public actions and programs, published an annual poster and copyright-free broadsides, and acted as press coordinator and clearing house for projects for Day Without Art/World AIDS Day. In 1997, it was suggested Day Without Art become a Day With Art, to recognize and promote increased programming of cultural events that draw attention to the continuing pandemic. Though "the name was retained as a metaphor for the chilling possibility of a future day without art or artists", we added parentheses to the program title, Day With(out) Art, to highlight the proactive programming of art projects by artists living with HIV/AIDS, and art about AIDS, that were taking place around the world. It had become clear that active interventions within the annual program were far more effective than actions to negate or reduce the programs of cultural centers.-Wikipedia
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More Info.....
Day Without Art: Looking Back 25 Years
Cultural critic, essayist and novelist published with Parkett, Art in America and Bijutsu Techo
2014- Huffington Post
Twenty-five years ago today, the first Day Without Art was instituted as the US art world's national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. Implemented by Visual AIDS, an organization of arts professionals founded by arts administrator Thomas Sokolowski, art critic Robert Atkins, and curators Gary Garrels and William Olander, the idea of a commemorative day without art was intended to make the public aware that HIV-AIDS can touch everyone, and inspire positive action. Astonishingly, some 800 U.S. art and HIV-AIDS groups participated in the first Day Without Art, shutting down museums, sending staff to volunteer at AIDS services or sponsoring special exhibitions of work about AIDS. Since then, Day Without Art has grown into a collaborative project in which an estimated 8,000 national and international museums, galleries, art centers, AIDS service organizations, libraries, high schools and colleges take part.
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