Mason Gross School of the Arts is proud to be partnering with the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Global, and the Rutgers School of Public Health to present special programming throughout the day on Tuesday, Dec. 1 for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2020 (full schedule below). Art & Design will be presenting TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States on a continuous loop from 10am-7pm on art.rutgers.edu bringing together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK).

As the world continues to adapt to living with a new virus, COVID-19, these videos offer an opportunity to reflect on the resonances and differences between the two epidemics and their uneven distribution across geography, race, and gender.

TUES: December 1, all day schedule
Join us for live virtual programming during Art Before/After Hours on December 1 to mark Day With(out) Art/World AIDS Day and celebrate Thomas Sokolowski, the Zimmerli’s late director, who passed away in May. Since 1989, Day With(out)Art has served as a national day of action and mourning in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis initiated by Visual AIDS, an organization that Sokolowski helped found.
§ 9:00am – The Zimmerli is hosting a live Zoom screening of TRANSMISSIONS Please note: the video program contains explicit content.
§ Throughout the Day – Look for special content on the Zimmerli’s online platforms honoring Tom Sokolowski.
§ 7:00pm – A live Zoom panel on the historical and contemporary intersections of HIV/AIDS advocacy and the arts, with a special emphasis on the role Tom Sokolowski played in founding Visual AIDS. Visual artist and Mason Gross professor Jeanine Oleson will moderate a conversation between Nelson Santos, an artist, curator, and former director of Visual AIDS; Allen Frame, a photographer and writer who has long worked with Visual AIDS; Dr. Perry N. Halkitis, Dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, and Donna Gustafson, the Zimmerli’s Curator of American and Modern Art, Mellon Director of Academic Programs, and currently the museum’s interim director.

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This program is presented in lead collaboration with Rutgers Global, Mason Gross School of the Arts, and Rutgers School of Public Health, with the additional support of Rutgers Student Health, Rutgers Global Health Institute, Rutgers Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, and the Office of the Chancellor, Rutgers – New Brunswick.