Wed 12/1 @ 5-7PM
This past fall, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve honored the LGBTQ+ community with an exhibit titled CONVERGE that presented the work of more than 70 regional LGBTQ artists, which also featured blocks of the National AIDS memorial Quilt.
Though that exhibit has closed, the work is not done. AAWR has joined with moCA, currently showing Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., to offer the second of two collaborative story-telling programs, this one honoring World AIDS Day, taking place in moCa’s first-floor atrium where more sections of the quilt are on view.
The program will be facilitated by Jen McMillen Smith, a Social Work Specialist in the Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease, at MetroHealth and coordinator of MetroHealth’s biennial exhibition of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Featured storytellers and CONVERGE artists Gil Kudrin, Jim George and Randy Maxin along with CONVERGE chief curator Kelly Pontoni, will get the ball rolling. But all are welcome to come and share their own experiences and thoughts about AIDS and those who were lost to the disease. It’s free but space is limited so advance registration is required. Go to artistsarchives.org.