World AIDS Day 2001 In 1988, Visual AIDS launched Day Without Art as a World AIDS Day initiative to mourn those we have lost and to promote a broader awareness of the crisis. Adopted by thousands of institutions and organizations, Day Without Art remains a powerful action for AIDS awareness. Visual AIDS often receives requests -- from all over the country -- for speakers for World AIDS Day/Day Without Art. Please let us know if you are interested in being a speaker and available; we will contact you if the right opportunity comes up. Also, we know that many of you organize or participate in World AIDS Day/Day Without Art activities. Please send us information on those events and we will try to get the word out through our Web site and email updates. For World AIDS Day/Day Without Art 2001, Visual AIDS is proud to be partnering with The House of Frame By Frame Fierce, a terrific organization founded by Shawn Atkins and Visual AIDS Archive member Luna Luis Ortiz. Four Public Service Announcements for HIV Awareness have been produced by Frame by Frame Fierce workshops. These short animated videos were conceived, developed and designed by a diverse group of Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender young people (16-21) and are directed towards youth most at risk of infection. Visual AIDS is distributing the PSAs to be shown on World AIDS Day/Day Without Art in galleries, lobbies, clinics and other public places. We believe reaching the broadest possible audience will help us advance two critical goals: promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention among young people; and inspiring action through an increased public understanding of the AIDS epidemic. Visual AIDS and The House of Frame by Frame Fierce will continue to work together after World AIDS Day to distribute the PSAs to AIDS organizations and youth service groups for use in their programming. If you or anyone you know might be interested in the PSA video, please contact us. Still from Frame by Frame Fierce Youth Risk Facts Each year over 20,000 young people under the age of 25 become HIV positive in the U.S. At least one American, 19 years old or younger, becomes infected with HIV every hour of every day. 50% of new infections in the U.S. are among people under the age of 25. 58% of all adolescent AIDS cases in the U.S. are young women. Almost half of young gay men admit to having had unprotected sex in the previous six months.

Postcards from the Edge Benefit Mark your calendars! The fourth annual "Postcards from the Edge" will be Sunday, November 18th. Sara Meltzer Gallery (516 West 20th Street, New York, NY) is hosting Visual AIDS one-day show and sale of postcard-sized works on paper. At this lively and popular event, all the art is signed on the back, so buyers don't know who made which piece. Everything -- including works by famous artists and those by new talent -- is sold for just $50. Last year, more artists participated than ever before and we set a record for funds raised. We need your help to break those records this year. If you would like to contribute work and have not yet received the package, please contact us. We'll send you the materials right away. Also, send us the names and addresses of any artists you think would contribute, and we'll get in touch with them. Finally, spread the word about the date and place. The more buyers we have, the more money we can raise.

Visual AIDS Material Grants This month, we are making our final round of Materials Grants for 2001. Starting in 2002, grants will be given in January, April, July and October. This will better fit our income cycle, so that we are making grants when we have the most funds available to distribute. Applications are due on the last day of the month prior to the grant (December 31, March 31, June 30 and September 30). Eligible applications that we are unable to fund will be automatically rolled over for consideration in the next grant cycle. Archive members may call or email Visual AIDS for a Materials Grant application form.

Seeking Potential Donors The Visual AIDS Board is launching an end-of-year direct appeal to raise funds for Visual AIDS and the Archive Project. Donation letters will be sent asking individuals to support the important work of Visual AIDS. We have begun generating a mailing list, and we could use your help. The longer our list, the more money we can raise. Please send us the names and addresses of any potential donors you might know -- whether they can give $5,000 or $50. Of course, you can call or email to ask us more about the direct appeal.

Congratulations! David Abbott was awarded Best in Show in the ABD 16 Exhibition at CSU Long Beach Design Gallery. Michael Moore was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Grant and also received an Honorable Mention in the ABD 16 Exhibition. Norman Shapiro recently had several books added to the permanent collection at the MOMA Library. Jorge Verras was just awarded a Wheeler Foundation Grant. Body Positive magazine featured the work of Barton Benes, Bruce Volpone and Patrick Webb in July and Joyce McDonald in August 2001.

Good Karma Visual AIDS needs your help! This is our busiest time of the year and we need volunteers to assist with mailings, benefits and general office work. We also need photographers to help document work of artist living with HIV/AIDS. If you can spare some time and talent please call or e-mail us. Thanks again to all the volunteers and photographers who have so generously given their time and support!

Grants and Opportunities For more information, please contact individual galleries or programs listed below. LIMNER GALLERY, NYC Emerging Artists 2002, international group exhibition. Open to all media. Send SASE to SlowArt Productions, 870 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10001, slowart@aol.com or www.limnergallery.com (deadline October 30, 2001). NEW ARTS PROGRAM, Artists nationwide are invited to compete for a solo exhibition/residency to be held at the NAP during 2002-2003 season. For more information, contact NAP Exhibitions, PO Box 0082, Kutztown, PA 19530, 610.683.6440, or e-mail: napconn@hotmail.com, www.napconnection.com (deadline November 30, 2001). LESLIE-LOHMAN GAY ART FOUNDATION provides an outlet for artwork that speaks directly to gay and lesbian sensibilities. Programs include exhibitions, video events, workshops, slide registry, panel discussions, newsletter and other services. For more information, contact Leslie-Lohman, 127-B Prince Street, NYC, 10012, 212.673.7007, LLDirector@earthlink.net, www.leslie-lohman.org. ART IN GENERAL encourages people to apply to their visual and performance programs, including individual and group exhibitions, site-specific and window installations, video, performance, dance, theater, poetry and music. Applications on-line at www.artingeneral.org or call 212.219.0473 THE DRAWING CENTER offers an opportunity for emerging artists to present their drawings to the curatorial staff for review, as well as for possible inclusion in the Slide Registry or exhibition. Contact The Drawing Center Viewing Program, 35 Wooster St, NY, NY 10013, 212.219.2166. ARTIST'S SPACE, Irving Sandler Slide registry is a digitized image database that is regularly used by curators, artists, galleries, and collectors to discover the work of emerging artists. For more information, send a SASE to Artist Space, 38 Green St, NY, NY 10013 or visit www.artistsspace.org. NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS offers Artists' Fellowships 2002 in the categories of architecture/environmental structures, choreography, fiction, music, painting, photography, playwriting and video. For more information, call 212.366.6900 ext. 217 or email nyfaafp@nyfa.org. To download an application, go to: www.nyfa.org (deadline October 2, 2001). CREATIVE CAPITAL GRANT 2001-2002 will fund artists in performing arts and emerging fields, including: new media, computer arts, audio works, interactive installations, experimental literature and interdisciplinary projects. Grants range from $5,000 - $20,000. To apply on-line, visit www.creative-capital.org or call 212.598.9900 for an application (deadline October 31, 2001). THE SAM AND ADELE GOLDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS funds individual artists working in paint who demonstrate exceptional creative ability. For an application, call or fax 607.847.8158; email goldenfoundation@ascent.net or info@goldenfoundation.org; visit www.goldenfoundation.org (deadline October 1, 2001). THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION offers financial assistance to artists of recognizable merit and financial need working as painters, sculptors, mixed media and installation artists. For information, contact Pollack-Krasner, 863 Park Ave, NY, NY 10021. THE AARON SISKIND FOUNDATION offers fellowships of up to $5,000 to support ongoing work in photography and related media. For more information, contact Aaron Siskind Foundation, School of Visual Arts, 214 E 21 St, NY 10010 or www.aaronsiskind.org. For more artist opportunities, visit www.artswire.org or subscribe free to FYI News at 212.366.6900.

HIV/AIDS Community Interest WOMEN's HIV COLLABORATIVE OF NEW YORK, invites you to a celebration of female artist, "Embracing the power of women through the arts," October 11, 5-10 pm. For more information, contact Ofelia Barrios 212.531.0049 or ofeliabarrios@hotmail.com. POSITIVE VISIONS web site is looking for submissions of photographs and writings by and about people living with HIV/AIDS, who have died of AIDS, or who are caretakers of people with HIV/AIDS. For more information, visit cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/dwa. POS EXPO, Spectrum/Drew Cares Community Action Committee is planning an exhibit that will feature work of HIV-positive people of color. For more information, contact Charles McWells at chmcwell@cdrewu.edu or James Miller 323.563.3437.

Current and Upcoming Archive Member Shows TRET, "AAP 91st Annual," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug. 24 - Sept. 23, 2001 TRET, "Introducing TRET," Koppers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, opens Aug. 25, 2001
Michael Harwood, "The Muses," Leslie Lohman Gallery, 127-B Prince St, NYC, Sept. 4 - Oct. 20, 2001 Paul Thek, "Prodigal Prodigy," White Box, 525 West 26th St, NYC, Sept. 6 - Oct. 13, 2001 Patrick Webb, "Ritual," DAM, 4719 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI, Reception: Sept. 14, 7-10pm, Sept. 8 - Oct. 26, 2001	work by Michael Harwood
Barton Lidice Benes, "A Private Reading . . .," Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, 21 E 26th St, NYC, Reception: Sept. 13, 6-8pm, Sept. 13 - Nov. 10, 2001
TRET, "6th SOWEPA Annual," Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greenburg, PA, Sept. 15 - Oct. 14, 2001 Michael Patrick Moore, The Ninth Life Gallery, St. Thomas Island, Sept. 30 - Oct. 31, 2001 Joe Brainard, "A Retrospective," P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, Sept. 30 - Dec. 30, 2001	work by Joe Brainard
Patrick Webb, "Works on Paper," New Gallery at Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, Oct. 1 - 30, 2001 Patrick Webb, "Faculty Show," Schafler Gallery at Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY, Reception Oct. 2, 4-6pm, Oct. 3 - Nov. 8, 2001
TRET, "TRET: Small Work," Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 4 - Nov. 4, 2001 TRET, "PSA Annual 2001," Foreland Street Studios, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 19 - Nov. 17, 2001	work by TRET
Frank Holliday, Debs and Co, 525 West 26th St, 2 Fl, NYC, Reception Oct. 20, 6-8pm, Oct. 20 - Nov. 17, 2001 Jason Deneault, "Three Artists," Artist's Foundation, 516 E 2nd St, South Boston, MA, Reception Nov. 17, Nov. 14 - Dec. 15, 2001

Recent Archive Member Shows
David Abbott @ CSU Long Beach Design Gallery Barton Lidice Benes @ Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Joe Brainard @ Tibor De Nagy Phillip Calkins @ 45 Bleecker Gallery	work by David Abbott
Mark Carter @ The State of Art Niccolo Cataldi @ 45 Bleecker Gallery Steven Clark @ Actors Fund of America William Donavan @ Stage Gallery Tony Feher @ Center for Curatorial Studies Frank Green @ CSU Long Beach Design Gallery Sunil Gupta @ Admit One Edwin Lacend @ East End Ensemble, Edwin's Mi Salon and Artists Space Edward Lightner @ Limner Gallery Tim Lonergan @ MICA & ARTSCAPE Michael Moore @ CSU Long Beach Design Gallery Chuck Nanney @ Debs & Co David Reyes @ 45 Bleecker Gallery Jack Shields @ Artemis Gallery J.D. Talasek @ Craighead-Green Gallery and Fleckenstein Gallery Steed Taylor @ Neuberger Museum of Art Richard Treitner @ The State of Art TRET @ AAP Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art and Zygote Gallery Becky Trotter @ GMHC 4th Fl. Gallery Jorge Veras @ The Bronx Museum of Art Nora Wallower @ 45 Bleecker Gallery Patrick Webb @ Julie Heller Gallery and Blue Mountain Gallery Frederick Weston @ Stella's work by Nora Wallower

Web Gallery To view past exhibits, click here. October's exhibit is curated by Barbara DeGenevieve. It features artist members Barton Lidice Benes, Robert Blanchon, Valerie Caris, Jimmy DeSana, Enrico Filippi, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rene Santos, Hugh Steers, Steed Taylor and Tseng Kwong Chi. September's web gallery "Transitional Space: An Exploration of Adolescent Identity & Homelessness" featured the work of artists: Garrett Brock, Milton Garcia Latex, Rebecca Guberman, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Chet Holcomb, Barry Huff, Melvin Jay, Ronald Bruce Monroe, Joe Monroe, Michael Moore, John Morrison, Luna Luis Ortiz, Nelson Rodriguez, Jorge Veras and Laurence Young. The show was curated by Navah Steiner and Rene Ortiz of Safe Space. August's web gallery was curated by JD Talasek and Michael Hampton and featured artist members Stephen Andrews, Barton Lidice Benes, Jimmy DeSana, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Frank Green, Rebecca Guberman, Sunil Gupta, John Lesnick, John Morrison, Rene Santos, Hugh Steers, Steed Taylor, Jorge Veras, David Wojnarowicz and Laurence Young.