Art AIDS America

I am very exited to be in this historc exhibiton. Art AIDS America the first comprehensive overview of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States Hope to see you at the opening. SUMMER SEASON OPEN HOUSE Wednesday, July 13, 6:00pm to 8:00pm MEMBERSHIP AND SPECIAL EVENTS The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Laura Blanco, and Executive Director Holly Block cordially invite you to attend our Summer Open House. Location: Throughout the galleries 5:00pm: RSVP for Bronx Museum Members tour of Art AIDS America with Rock Hushka and Jonathan D. Katz, co-curators of the exhibition, to membership@bronxmuseum.org or call 718-681-6000, ext. 120. 5:30pm: RSVP for Bronx Museum Members tour of CAZA: Rochele Gomez, Margaret Lee, Alejandra Seeber, led by the curator Sofia Hernandez alongside the participating artists, to membership@bronxmuseum.org or call 718-681-6000, ext. 120. 6:30pm: Performance of IN THE GARDEN OF MI AMIGO EL id. Choreographed by Arthur Aviles, Artistic Director at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and performed by Jonathan Gonzalez in the galleries 7:15pm: Performance by Artist/Choreographer David Thomson in the 2nd floor North Wing The Keith Haring Foundation – Project Street Beat Mobile Medical Unit of Planned Parenthood of New York City will join us during the event. Robert Penn's video reel "Art AIDS America Black Gay Men NYC Addendum 2016" will be included in the touring exhibit at The Bronx Museum of the Arts beginning July 13, 2016. The 12 minute 49 second reel contains two short works: First, a 79-second silent video projection design for the theatrical revival of PoMo Afro Homos' Fierce Love recalls intense, culturally diverse activism in the early days of the epidemic; and Second, the 11 minute 30 second documentary remembers black LBGT writer-activists who spontaneously established Other Countries Black Gay Expression in 1986 because AIDS had already devastated the community of black and brown men who love men though most media only presented the white gay male as the face of AIDS. Wednesday, July 13th, 6 - 8 p.m. 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street Bronx, NY 10456 6:00pm: Open House begins - FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC 6:30pm: Performance of IN THE GARDEN OF MI AMIGO EL id. Choreographed by Arthur Aviles, Artistic Director at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and performed by Jonathan Gonzalez in the galleries 7:15pm: Performance by Artist/Choreographer David Thomson in the 2nd floor North Wing The Keith Haring Foundation – Project Street Beat Mobile Medical Unit of Planned Parenthood of New York City will join us during the event. Exhibition on view from July 14 to September 25, 2016 http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/art-aids-america Art AIDS America was organized by Tacoma Art Museum in partnership with The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and 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 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. Art AIDS America at The Bronx Museum of the Arts is supported by Gary Hattem and Frazier Holloway, anonymous, and individual donors. Education and Community Engagement Programs are generously supported by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Arcus Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation