ROCHESTER, NY (AAPNW) – The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester invites New York State artists to submit their original poster designs to a juried poster competition as part of the upcoming exhibition: Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster, to go on view March 6 through June 19, 2022.
Up Against the Wall is the first major exhibition devoted to the University of Rochester’s collection of HIV/AIDS-related posters and is one of the largest such collections in the world. They document efforts by various groups to educate and inform people from over 130 countries in over 75 languages about this devastating disease.
The posters span from 1982 to the present and show how social, religious, civic and public health agencies have addressed the controversial terrain of the HIV/AIDS pandemic within the public realm. The posters have carefully tailored messages that address different groups and depending on their intended audiences, use scare tactics, simple scientific explanations, sexual imagery and even humor to get their messages across.
For more information about the upcoming exhibition, please visit: mag.rochester.edu/exhibitions/up-against-the-wall/