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Are You a Visual Artist Living With HIV/AIDS?
Founded 1988, Visual AIDS has been affecting change in the fight against AIDS and raising awareness through the visual arts by producing exhibitions, publications, events and public awareness campaigns.
Visual AIDS also assists artists with HIV/AIDS, while preserving a visual record of their work. Through the Frank Moore Archive Project, the largest registry of works by visual artists with HIV/AIDS, we offer professional services including: free documentation of artwork, exhibition and exposure opportunities, Artist Materials Grants and Emergency Grants to artists living on low incomes. Membership in the Frank Moore Archive Project is free and open to all professional visual artists living with HIV/AIDS and the estates of artists who have died from AIDS.
Membership
If you are an artist living with HIV/AIDS and would like to join the Archive Project, please download the Artist Membership Forms here.
If you represent the estate of an artist who has died from AIDS, please download the Estate Forms here.
Return completed forms to Visual AIDS, along with a set of slides or a CD of digital images. You must include a checklist of artwork with title, size, year, and media for each piece. The Archive Project began as a slide library, and over time we will be converting our 13,000 slides into a digital format, meanwhile we will accept both formats. If you do not have documentation of your artwork, and live in the New York area, please contact us to make arrangements. Mail your membership forms and images to Visual AIDS, 526 W. 26th St. # 510, New York, NY 10001.
Artist Materials Grants
Once you have become a Visual AIDS artist member, you may apply for a Materials Grant. The Materials Grants is a program of Visual AIDS initiated to help low-income artists maintain their artistic practice by providing grants, of up to $300, in the form of gift certificates to art supply vendors. Materials Grants are available to Visual AIDS Archive Members ONLY. To be eligible you must have an active file in the Frank Moore Archive Project, including Membership Form, Artist Release Form, and artwork documentation. Archive Members are eligible for only one grant per 12-month cycle. The number of Materials Grants issued by Visual AIDS is subject to available funds. To be eligible you must:
- Be a current member of the Frank Moore Archive Project and have shown evidence that you are a working artist.
- Have not received a Materials Grant in the past 12 months.
- Agree to report on the use of the grant, submit receipts from supply purchases, and show works created with grant funds.
- Submit an application form by the May 15 or December 15 DEADLINE.
You can download the Materials Grant application forms here.
If you have any questions regarding Membership or Materials Grants, please contact us.
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