In the world today, there are more than 40 million people who live with HIV/AIDS. For every infected person, there is a story of hardship, pain and anger. Often, it is mixed with tales of hope, courage and resilience. Pandemic: Imaging Aids, a groundbreaking photo exhibition, tells these stories.
Coming to Chicago for nine weeks only, Pandemic: Imaging Aids is a traveling exhibition of more than 100 original cibachrome and silver gelatin photographs in varied formats by award-winning photographers for 50 countries. This arresting collection will be on display in the Chicago Cultural Center’s fourth floor Exhibit Hall, 78 E. Washington St., from Jan. 29 through April 3. Admission is free to the exhibition, gallery talks and related events.
The public is invited to learn more about the exhibition during several related programs. A gallery talk, ”Artists, Photography and AIDS,” will take place in the Exhibit Hall on two Thursdays, Feb. 3 and March 3, at 12:15 p.m. Here visitors can discuss photography and its social responsibility and how the artists whose work is on display meet these challenges.
On two Thursdays, Feb. 17 and March 24, at 12:15 p.m. the gallery talk “Local/Global” will take place in Exhibit Hall. In this forum, local AIDS service providers, advocates and activists in the field will engage in public conversation about the AIDS Crisis in Chicago.
On Wednesday, March 9, at 6 p.m., Mark Kline, Director of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, will lead a lecture in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theatre, co-presented by the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.
On Saturday, March 19, at 2 p.m., a public conversation titled “Photography, Responsibility and AIDS” will take place in Exhibit Hall, offering visitors a chance to look at the issues raised in Pandemic: Imaging Aids. Participants will include Whitney Bradshaw, artist and assistant curator of the LaSalle Bank photography collection; Nick Low, faculty member at The School of the Art Institute, Arts Administration program; and Lynn Sloan, author, photographer and faculty member at Columbia College, Photography department.
On Thursday, March 31, at 6 p.m. in Exhibit Hall, vocal students from DePaul University will perform “Selections from the AIDS Quilt Songbook," a collection of original and new songs, including works by composers Ricky Ian Gordon, William Bolcom and Ned Rorem.
Viewing hours for Pandemic: Imaging Aids are Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Chicago Cultural Center is closed on holidays.
For more information, call (312) 744-6630 or visit chicagoculturalcenter.org.
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