An evening of hair, beauty and style benefiting Visual AIDS will take place Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:00 pm - 1:00 am at One Love Wednesdays at B Bar and Grill 40 East 4th Street (formerly known as Bowery Bar). Haircuts by NYC's top stylists are only $40 and makeup from $10-$20. There will also be raffle prizes for beauty products and accessories. There is no cover charge. It's first come, first serve ­so come early and enjoy the drink special. There will also be a DJ and a very special guest. If you would like to help out or know someone in the beauty world who would, please contact us: 212.627.9855/info@visualaids.org.

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We encourage all Archive Member artists to submit slides and applications to the Share Your Vision art contest. Artists do not need to have CMV retinitis to apply. The most appropriate submissions will address, discuss or represent the artist's understanding of and/or experience with CMV retinitis The exhibition will be at Artists Space and have an accompanying catalogue. There are cash prizes to be won and the jurors are all well-known arts administrators. Our partners at Roche have been very good about keeping this an educational campaign. Selected art works will not be utilized in advertising and will not be represented with mention of Roche's medications for CMV retinitis. Deadline is June 16, 2003. For more information, visit: www.thebody.com/visualaids/share_vision.html.

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Lightbox will be ending its run at the beautiful Jersey City Museum where it was noted in the Arts & Leisure section of the New Jersey edition of the New York Times and was featured on NJN (New Jersey public radio). It was also at Newark Academy in Livingston, NJ earlier this spring and at GMAD in Harlem in December. We thank our friends: Earl Plante and David Mayer at GMAD, Jay Torson and Elaine Brody at the Newark Academy, and Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Pamela Ford at the JCM.

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In March Visual AIDS teamed up with the AIDS advocacy team at Housing Works to produce a postcard piece that compared the money spent bombing Iraq with the cost of providing services to people living with HIV/AIDS. For more information about Housing Works AIDS advocacy work you can contact Terri at: smith-caronia@housingworks.org or 212-645-8111. The Housing Works Web site is also a great source of info about AIDS activism.

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Web Gallery

If you haven't checked out the Web Gallery lately, please take a look. Some of the fun and provocative exhibits include "Dress Up" by Monya Rowe, "Immortality" by Franklin Sirmans, "Beyond XXX" by Magalie Guerin, and "My Brother" by Eungie Joo. There are more wonderful curators lined up, so be sure to keep your slide file updated! Current exhibit: www.thebody.com/visualaids/web_gallery/index.html.

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Pride Exhibit

View Bar and Jackson present a special installment of WELL HUNG: The Pride Shows. The Pride Shows will feature digital slide projections of paintings, illustrations, photography and multi-media from emerging and established New York City -- including a special presentation from the Visual AIDS Archive Project. A selection of the work will also appear in the June 2003 web gallery. Kick off your NYC Gay Pride weekend with the opening of two exciting and stimulating exhibitions Thursday, June 26 at 10pm at View Bar, 232 Eighth Avenue, NYC.

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Tom of Finland -- Erotic Art Fair

The Tom of Finland Foundation donated a booth space to Visual AIDS at the 3rd Annual NYC Erotic Art Fair. The event took place Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1, 2003 from 12-6 pm at The LGBT Community Center. The Erotic Art Fair featured over 45 artists from around the world. Participating Visual AIDS artists include: Alex Aleixo, Luis Carle, Jose Luis Cortez, Brian Crede, Max Greenberg, Michael Harwood, Frederick Weston and Albert Winn.

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Visual AIDS Board News: Hello & Goodbye

Visual AIDS welcomes two new Board Members: AA Bronson and Barton Benes. Internationally acclaimed artist AA Bronson was one of the three members of General Idea (1969-1994), the artists' collaborative that focused entirely on the theme of AIDS from 1987 until the deaths of the two other members in 1994. He was also a founder and director of Art Metropole, the Toronto artist-run center for artists' books, video, audio, multiples and other editions, and he master-minded the Art Metropole Collection of these materials, which now resides at the National Gallery of Canada. He is currently the Treasurer of Printed Matter, New York, and is working on a new Web site about his own work at www.aabronson.com. General Idea Editions: A Selection Exhibition and General Idea: Editions 1967-1995 Catalogue are currently at Printed Matter, Inc. until June 21, 2003. For more information, please visit Printed Matter.

Barton Benes is an internationally acclaimed artist and a long-standing Visual AIDS Archive Member. He now joins the Visual AIDS Board of Directors. Barton received international attention for his work dealing with HIV and AIDS. In 1995 a documentary about Barton and his AIDS work was made for Czech Television. POZ Magazine featured a column by Barton, "Letters from Aunt Evelyn." His recent publication, Curiosa, published by Abrams, has sold out of its first printing. Barton is represented in New York by Lennon Weinberg.

Retiring from the Board of Directors are Stefanie Nagorka and Anne Hutchins-Orsi. Visual AIDS recognizes the great contributions of these two important women who have long been part of the Visual AIDS family. As we say farewell, we thank you both for all that you have done to make Visual AIDS the organization it is today and will work to continue and further our mission and programs guided by your examples of selfless generosity. We would also like to say congratulations to Stefanie Nagorka, who was recently interviewed on NPR.

The Visual AIDS Board includes: Geoffrey Hendricks, President; Paul Gunther, Vice-President; Sur Rodney (Sur), Secretary; Barbara Hunt, Treasurer; Howard Grossman, Barton Benes, AA Bronson and Anne Hutchins-Orsi, Director Emeritus.

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Let Visual AIDS Help

• Your Resource Library
  In addition to the quarterly newsletters, Visual AIDS keeps an ongoing list of residency, grant, and exhibition opportunities. Please contact us if you are doing research or need help.

• Shoot your own slides
  Visual AIDS still has plenty of daylight slide film. If you have a camera or a friend who can shoot your work, let us know and we can send out the film to you and cover the processing fees. If you have any questions on using daylight slide film, please feel free to speak to Nelson.

• Computer Station
  Visual AIDS has a third computer station available for use by all Archive Member artists. You can use the computer to work on resumes, applications, scan slides, search the internet, etc. Call us to schedule an appointment.

• Studio Visits
  We would love to see your work in person! If you are within traveling distance (sorry, no planes), we would be happy to arrange a visit to your home or studio to view your work and discuss what you are up to. Call Nelson to schedule appointments.

• Letter of Recommendation
  Visual AIDS is also a resource for its Archive Member artists who are applying for schooling, residencies, and/or grants. Let us know if we can write you a letter of recommendation.

• Workshops
  What do you need to know? We have contacts with different arts professionals and would like to set up a series of workshops out of the Visual AIDS office. Please let us know what you would like to know and when would be a good time for you to attend (weekends, evenings, mornings, etc.). Possible topics include: representing your artwork to galleries and art centers; grants and residencies; legal advice for artists; estate planning; photo-documentation/shooting slides. These are to benefit Archive Member artists. Please let us know if these would be of use to you or if there are other workshop topics that you would like to see.