RTS is excited to host Virtual Artist Talk with Anthea Black & Jessica Whitbread Friday, December 4, 2020, from 11:00-12:30 pm via Zoom.
Anthea Black is an artist and writer based in Toronto and Oakland where they are Professor of Print Media at California College of the Arts.
Jessica Whitbread is a queer activist, artist and Visual AIDS Vanguard based in Toronto and Bulgaria. Together they are partners, publishers and co-editors of The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism.
The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper published by Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread that focuses on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists have and continue to play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working within communities that are most impacted by the virus: queer and trans people, people who use drugs, sex workers, people of colour, and indigenous peoples. Together we reflect the immediacy and urgency of global HIV/AIDS dialogues as well as their historical continuities. The HIV Howler is a forum for dialogue, a demand for aesthetic self-determination, a response to tokenism, and a guide to navigating the vibrational ambiguities between policy, pathology, and community.
Register here:
https://portal.cca.edu/events-calendar/artist-talk-hiv-howler-publishers-anthea-black-and-jessica-whitbread/