Patrick O'Connell was the Director of Visual AIDS during the early 1990s, when the Red Ribbon initially reached widespread international prominence. As a member of the Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus, he collaborated on the creation and production of the Red Ribbon, and along with Harvey Weiss co-produced the Celebrity Ribbon Cavalcade, debuting it at the 1992 New York LGBTQ Pride March before taking it to multiple fund raising venues as an outreach tool for HIV/AIDS advocacy. Marc Happel has been designing costumes for stage and screen for the past 35 years, from Broadway, to Hollywood, to Wigstock, to the Metropolitan Opera, and now as Costume Director of NYC Ballet. The Denver born artist was commissioned to create a custom World AIDS Day design for the 2015 Subaru Legacy that was revealed during Art Basel, Miami and is a spokesperson for Merck’s iDesign HIV/AIDS educational initiative. Mondo’s visual aesthetics often carry a social message that intersects his art with his advocacy. Mondo Guerra is a designer and social influencer whose innovative style and bold prints have caught the fashion world’s imagination, while his truth and courage captured the hearts of fans around the world when he first revealed his HIV+ status on “Project Runway” Season 8. He also co-created and toured the photo projection piece Electric Blanket about the AIDS pandemic. He was a member of the Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus and was part of the group who created the Red Ribbon. She was part of the Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus and present at the birth of the Red Ribbon.Īllen Frame is a photographer, writer and educator, represented by Gitterman Gallery in New York. Penny Arcade aka Susana Ventura is a performance artist, actress, writer, documentary video and theater maker. Visual AIDS 30 th Anniversary Programming was supported by a Humanities New York Action Grant. Hope Sandrow, artist and co-founder with artist Frank Moore of Red Ribbon Bees at the Park Avenue Armory Women’s Shelter, during which ribbon makers were compensated for creating Red Ribbons to be distributed widely by Visual AIDS. Marc Happel and Harvey Weiss, who originally coordinated the Celebrity Red Ribbon Calvacade, winner of best float in the 1992 New York City Pride March. Mondo Guerra, fashion designer and winner of Project Runway All Stars, who will provide contemporary reflections on the role of fashion and design to support artists and AIDS-related causes. Penny Arcade, member of the Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus.Īllen Frame, original Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus member who has worked to maintain the Red Ribbon’s history for decades. The program took place at Performance Space New York, the former site of PS 122, where the Red Ribbon was originally conceived. As an artist/activist project, the ribbon has never been copyrighted so that it can circulate widely as a consciousness-raising symbol, and as the first wearable ribbon it has lead the way for many other color ribbons and awareness projects. Highlighted prominently at the 1991 Tony Awards, the ribbon came to be worn widely by celebrities and was taken up internationally as a symbol of AIDS awareness, eventually being included on a US postage stamp and entering the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art as a design icon. The event featured archival images and video documentation of the Red Ribbon over the years. This Visual AIDS 30 th Anniversary program animated the history of the Red Ribbon as an internationally recognized symbol of AIDS awareness, bringing together former members of the Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus and other artists and activists to reflect upon the Red Ribbon’s immense impact and the process of creating one of AIDS activism’s most widely known symbols. The Red Ribbon was created in 1991 by the Visual AIDS Artists' Caucus as a meaningful symbol of awareness and to show support and compassion for those living with AIDS and their caregivers.
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