{"id":515162,"date":"2022-03-14T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=515162"},"modified":"2023-12-01T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:18:29","slug":"hiv-aids-education-posters-exhibit-515162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/hiv-aids-education-posters-exhibit-515162\/","title":{"rendered":"New poster exhibit documents urgency, complexity of HIV\/AIDS messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first major exhibition of the University\u2019s AIDS Education Posters highlights the role of poster art during the global epidemic.<\/h2>\n

Thought-provoking. Myth-busting. Visually arresting. Painfully blunt.<\/p>\n

However you describe it, the new exhibit presented by the Memorial Art Gallery<\/a> (MAG) and the River Campus Libraries<\/a> (RCL) at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a> captures the creative lengths taken to prevent and mitigate the tragedy and destruction caused by the HIV\/AIDS epidemic.<\/p>\n

Up Against the Wall: Arts, Activism, and the AIDS Poster<\/em> is the first major exhibition of the University\u2019s AIDS Education Posters collection<\/a>, donated by Edward C. Atwater \u02bc50 in 2007. Housed in the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, the collection holds more than 8,000 posters from around the world, making it one of the largest of its kind in the world.<\/p>\n

Featuring 165 posters, Up Against the Wall<\/em> illustrates the range of strategies public health and advocacy groups took to inform and influence people to protect themselves and others from the deadly virus. The exhibit is split into two sections: \u201cRaising Awareness,\u201d posters that inform and target myths and misinformation, and \u201cActing Up,\u201d posters that advocate for personal responsibility and aim to inspire safe behavior.<\/p>\n

Up Against the Wall<\/em> is on display until June 19.<\/p>\n