Nelson Santos joins us at Visual AIDS as the new Assistant Director. He has recently moved to New York from Chicago where he received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute. He is a visual artist who has work in art administration and education. He and his dog Sparky are very happy to be here.

Stefanie Nagorka is working on her art full time, but will continue as a Visual AIDS Board of Directors member and will keep in touch. Stefanie will be showing at Debs & Co., 525 W 26th 2nd Fl, NYC, Sept. 7 - Oct. 14, 2000. We wish Stefanie the best of luck and thank her for all her hard work and support.

Current and Upcoming Archive Member Shows Tim Lonergan, Evergreen House, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, until Oct. 31, 2000 Tret Tierney, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug. 25 - Sept. 17, 2000 Richard Treitner, Pegasus Art Group, NYC, Sept. 9 - Oct. 14, 2000 Richard Treitner, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NYC, Sept. 13 - Oct. 1, 2000 Al Winn, The Skirtball Museum & Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. - Dec. 2000 work by Richard Treitner John Lesnick, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NYC, Sept. 13 - Oct. 1, 2000 Joyce McDonald, New Jerusalem Baptist Church, Sept. 16, 2000 Steed Taylor, Saint Xavier University Gallery, Chicago, IL, Sept. 27 - Oct. 19, 2000 Frederick Weston, Village Center for Care, NYC, September 2000 Tom Teebe, Gestalt Gallery @ www.gestaltgallery.com, September 2000 Barton Lidice Benes, Museokeskus Vapriikki, Finland, September 2000 Richard Treitner, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 2 - 29, 2000 Alex Greenfield, Mason Gross Art Gallery, Rutgers, NJ, Oct. 2 - Oct. 27, 2000 Tret Tierney, Third Street Gallery, Carnegie, PA, Oct. 14 - Nov. 11, 2000 Tret Tierney, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, PA, Nov. 7 - Jan. 13, 2001 Al Winn, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. - Dec. 2000 "Carriages, Coupes & Hansoms," 1997 Frank H. Jump cibachrome 14" x 11" Al Winn, Suny Stony Brook, NY, Nov. - Dec. 2000 Frank H. Jump, Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY, December 9-31, 2000 Barton Lidice Benes, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, December 2000

Recent Archive Member Shows Barton Lidice Benes @ Upsala Castle Jason Denault @ The Cambridge Art Association Philip Calkins @ Barbara Ann Levy Gallery Edgard Guanipa @ Greenspan Center Michael Harwood @ Tom of Finland Edward Lighter @ Highwave Gallery & New Century Artists Gallery Tim Lonergan @ ArtScape 2000 Preston McGoven @ Nightingale Gallery Clifford Smith @ A Different Light Bookstore Tret Tierney @ Wood Street Galleries & Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Affrica Jefferson and Guytrell Griffiin @ Village Center for Care Barton Lidice Benes, Sunil Gupta, Chuck Nanny, Frank Moore, Steed Taylor and Albert J. Winn in Bodies of Resistance, S. Africa

"Spirit Sounds," 1997 Thomas Tret Tierney polaroids 11" x 8.5"

Congratulations! JD Talasek recently had two photographs purchased by the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan for their permanent collection. Joel Wateres did the gay pride issue cover for NEXT Magazine and the cover of the August issue of CircuitNoize. He is also working on a photographic book to be published late winter 2001, called "In the Groove of the Machine." Michael Moore received the Gwendolyn Hawley Scholarship from Kansas State School of the Blind and Visually Impaired. Preston McGovern illustrated the cover for the July issue of Body Positive. Tim Lonergan received a grant from the Adam Gale Memorial Fund.

Postcards from the Edge Benefit The Postcards from the Edge Benefit is our one-day show and sale of postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All cards are sold for only $50! A blank postcard will be sent out to participating artists in September. The show and sale will take place at Andrew Kreps Gallery on Sunday, November 5, from 2:00-5:30 p.m. If you are interested in helping out or submitting work, please contact us.

Positively Art 2001 Calendar Thank you to everyone who submitted work for the calendar. It was a very difficult job for the judges to choose only 14 finalists. The calendar should be out by November.

Opportunities for Artists! For more information about any of these opportunities, please use the contact info listed. Please do not contact Visual AIDS. International Center of Photography "Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self" call for submissions of photographic, photo-based multimedia and digital media by artists addressing issues of cultural identity in America. Exhibit will be co-curated by ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis and guest curator Coco Fusco. It will include a substantial traveling exhibition, catalogue, Web site and symposium. Work by at least one photographer from every U.S. state and territory will be featured on the project Web site. For further info contact: ICP, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, 212.860.1777, or higginbo@icp.org. Deadline Oct. 15, 2000 Creative Capital Grant The Creative Capital Grant supports work in the field of visual arts and media arts with the potential for significant artistic and cultural impact. The granters are particularly interested in projects that transcend boundaries or that fall outside the present confines of art practice. Grants range from $5,000 - $20,000. For more information visit www.creative-capital.org or call 212.598.9900. Deadline Oct. 31, 2000 "No Live Girls" Call For Video Works A program of video art will be screened in late December at Show World, a historic, multi-story adult entertainment establishment located at 303 West 42nd Street in New York City. Videos will be screened in existing peep booths. The curators are seeking 128 artists' videos to match the celebrated 128 channels of video in use on the first floor. They are seeking work that comments on the experience of the peep show booth or addresses the issues of pornography, voyeurism, eroticism, sexuality and gender. Videos should be no longer than seven minutes. For further info contact nolivegirls@hotmail.com or visit www.nolivegirls.org. Deadline Oct. 15, 2000 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts Juried Show 2001 This exhibition is open to artists in all media from across the country and abroad. Each artist may enter NO MORE than two of their most recent pieces for consideration. Entry fee is $30.00. Cash awards totaling $1,800 will be presented. For more information, contact New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, 68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ 07901 or call 908.273.9121. Deadline Nov. 20, 2000 Lower East Side Printshop, Inc. Special Editions Fellowship 2000. LESP invites emerging artists to submit applications for the Special Edition Fellowship Program 2001. Four awarded artists will work in-residence with master printers throughout 2001. Each artist will have 8-12 working sessions with the master printer to complete a new project. Printshop will provide materials, tools and equipment, full studio access, technical assistance and an artist honorarium. Two additional fellowships are available for minority artists born 1971 or later. For further information contact LESP, 59-61 East 4th St., 6th Fl., New York, NY 10003, 212.673.5390, www.printshop.org, or e-mail: info@printshop.org. Deadline Dec. 3, 2000 Contemporary Museum, Baltimore "Snapshot" will be composed of 1,000 or more photographs from international artists and art professionals. Each participant is invited to contribute one 4" x 6" or smaller unframed "snapshot" with a title or caption. Participants should also submit a current resume for publication. Participating artists include Polly Apfelbaum, William Kentridge, Pepon Osorio, Kiki Smith, John Waters and others. For further information contact Contemporary Museum, 100 W. Centre Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, 410.783.5720 or e-mail: alerner@contemporary.org. Deadline Oct. 15, 2000