Let's Get Visual

Recently, we sat down with Durham-based documentary artist Lisa Marie Albert to talk about ways to harness the creativity of the HIV/AIDS community and the expressive power of the visual arts to advance our goals.

So it was only natural that we'd turn to her for suggestions on how to create Visual Media Tool Kits that will provide people with new ways to express their compassion, their concern, and their commitment to fighting for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, their loved ones, and people at risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS in North Carolina.

And that's where you come in. We're asking everyone to collect materials to donate to NCAAN for our Visual Media Tool Kits project. Here are some of Lisa Marie's suggestions of the types of things we can use:

- poster board and canvasses

- old magazines to cut from (words, letters, pictures)

- scissors

- lots of new markers, lots of colors

- crayons

- paint (acrylic or poster paint)

- paintbrushes

- pencils

- glue (wet for glitter, and glue sticks for magazines)

- glitter or glitter paint

- other arts & crafts stuff

- colored tissue paper

- construction/art/scrap booking paper

- stencils for words/lettering

- modge podge (dries very clear, so good for use over magazine/tissue)

- condoms (for gluing to posters as part of the art)

- dental dams (if you can get some)

- beads (could glue them on for more decoration)

- double-sided tape

- other stuff, too!!!

Have stuff to donate? Drop an email to Lisa at lisa@ncaan.org & we'll figure out the best way to connect based on your location!