Angela Bailey in discussion with Esther McGowen

Monday March 23
6:30PM (open and free to the public)
Residency Unlimited 
360 Court Street (enter church building through main entrance)
Brooklyn, NY 11231

This timely conversation will examine Bailey’s interest in the cultural, collective and community memory that reflects on the archive and the artist and how we continually reinterpret their significance in the ongoing history of HIV/AIDS. This philosophy considers the nuances around the “future of nostalgia” and how the archive/collection intersects with the contemporary.

In 2014 Angela curated two exhibitions that were part of the International AIDS 2014 Cultural Program in Melbourne. Vital Signs featured artists creating new work from engaging and interpreting the collection of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Collection, where Bailey is currently Vice President. Central and Vital acknowledged 30 years of the National Association of People living with HIV Australia at the Global Village, AIDS 2014 Melbourne.

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Launched in 2012, Visual AIDS and Residency Unlimited (RU) joined efforts to host a one-month residency program for a curator, art historian, or arts writer interested in the intersection of visual art and HIV/AIDS. The curatorial residency encourages the development of exhibitions, programs, and scholarship about HIV/AIDS and contemporary art. Angela Bailey’s one-month curatorial residency is made possible and co-sponsored within the framework of the collaboration between RU and Visual AIDS.

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Angela Bailey’s one-month residency is made possible and co-sponsored within the framework of the collaboration between RU and Visual AIDS.

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Bios:
Esther McGowan, Associate Director, Visual AIDS
Esther McGowan oversees communication and outreach with Artist Members and runs the Materials Grant Program for HIV+ artists, which includes two grant cycles annually. She helps to spearhead Visual AIDS fundraising, including grant writing and the planning of two annual benefit events, Postcards from the Edge and the Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards. She joined Visual AIDS in 2012 from The Center for Fiction where she was Development and Marketing Director. Prior to that, she was a freelance development consultant engaging in fundraising and benefit planning for clients such as The Watermill Center and The Bronx Museum of the Arts.  She was Development Director at Alliance for the Arts, Development and Programs Manager at Arts International, and earlier in her career, held positions at The Art Matters Foundation and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.  She has a BA in Art History from NYU.