Art AIDS America ran from December 1, 2016 (World AIDS Day) through April 2, 2017, at the Alphawood Gallery in Chicago. We wish to express our deep gratitude to the thousands of people who visited this remarkable exhibition, as well as the many people and institutions that helped make it possible. Please explore our Exhibition website, which is preserved here. Among many other resources, the website contains video documentation of some of the extraordinary programs that took place over the course of the exhibition.
A catalogue of the Chicago version of Art AIDS America will be published later in 2018. This will be a companion volume to the original catalogue published by Tacoma Art Museum and the University of Washington Press, and will highlight the additional works added for the Chicago presentation as well as the extensive programming organized by Alphawood Gallery during the exhibition.
Art AIDS America was organized by Tacoma Art Museum in partnership with The Bronx Museum of the Arts. The exhibition is co-curated by Jonathan David Katz, Director, Visual Studies Doctoral Program at the University at Buffalo (The State University of New York), and Rock Hushka, Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art at Tacoma Art Museum. The national tour is supported by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Gilead Sciences, Inc. The exhibition and catalogue have been made possible by support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
In Chicago, this exhibition is made possible by the Alphawood Foundation, a Chicago-based, grant-making private foundation working for an equitable, just and humane society. The exhibition will be presented in a new temporary space, the Alphawood Gallery, renovated for this purpose, located in the Foundation’s headquarters building.
Your Story
We hope that experiencing Art AIDS America will inspire you to tell your own story of living with HIV/AIDS or losing someone close to you to this devastating illness.
The Alphawood Gallery is proud to be working with StoryCorps, an award-winning global platform for listening, connecting, and sharing stories of the human experience. The StoryCorps app and StoryCorps.me were designed to make it easy and enjoyable to record your story to share with others or not, as you choose.
The StoryCorps app—a free mobile application—seamlessly walks users through an interview. You will receive help preparing questions, finding the right environment for your conversation, recording a high-quality interview on your mobile device, sharing the finished product with friends and family, and uploading your conversation to the StoryCorps.me website.
You can download and use the app anywhere. We also hope you will visit the StoryCorps room on the second floor of the Art AIDS America Chicago exhibition and tell your story. StoryCorps also has a permanent recording booth located at Chicago’s Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. You can learn more about making a reservation to use that booth here. Finally, a StoryCorps team will be present in the exhibition’s StoryCorps room on several occasions during the four months that Art AIDS America will be on view.
