10/01/2025
At Visual AIDS we know that the ongoing AIDS crisis, and the artistic and activist response to it, has much to teach us all as we face new and ongoing crises. In this moment of local, national, and global precarity, we focus on our roots: to preserve, to repair, and to continue for the generations before us and those yet to come.
Over the past year, we have seen awareness around HIV/AIDS erode with alarming momentum. International funding has been cut for PEPFAR and USAID, leaving millions around the world without access to lifesaving medication and healthcare. Within the United States, HIV prevention, surveillance, and research programs have been gutted and dismantled. These cuts have immediate effects—treatment interrupted, studies cancelled, people left to die—but their full impact is harder to see and will unfold in slow motion over the next decade. It is up to artists and activists to make this visible.
We are committed to continuing our work.
In this uncertain and frightening moment – amid funding cuts and rising AIDS denialism – we need your support. Help us raise $75k before World AIDS Day, December 1, 2025, to show that we aren’t going anywhere.
Visit the link in our bio or visualaids.org/donate to learn more about the work we are doing and why your support matters.
Photos:
[Slide 1 middle image] installation shot of Ministry: Rev. Joyce McDonald, photo by Argenis Apolinario, 2025
[Slide 2] Joyce McDonald, Priceless Parent Protection, 2020, courtesy of the artist, Gordon Robichaux, New York, and Maureen Paley, London, photo: Ryan Page;
[Slide 1 and 3] Joseph Modica, Ethel, Keith, Cookie & John part of a new archival acquisition initiative for the Visual AIDS Archive
[Slide 4] Still José Luis Cortés Day(With)Out Art 2025 film, ¿Por qué tanto dolor? (Why so much pain?)
