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Community-collaborative mural at The Center for AIDS Service, 5720 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland, CA, 20'x 60', 1994

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Hope Is Alive, Detail of John Neilson, Kerie Campbell and Sharon Siskin working on scaffolding for our community-collaborative mural in process at The Center for AIDS Service, 5720 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland, CA, 20?x 60?, 1994

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Hulda Brown with life mask, Positive Art workshop with WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Disease) weekend retreat, face and body casting, laster gauze and acrylic paint, 1993

 

Facing AIDS, at the Richmond Art Center. Partial installation view of collaborative installation of 15 facial castes of Positive Art participants living in Richmond, CA with epidemiological text coving the masks, illuminating the prevalence of AIDS in West Contra Costa County, CA, plaster gauze, beeswax, acrylic painted life-size shadow/blackboard with chalk for interactive information sharing and dialogue, dimensions variable with sculpture by Kek Tee Lim in the background, 1993

 

Self-Portrait, Maire Hough, from exhibition at Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA,
caste paper and flax, 18"x 16", 1992

 

Rattle of Empty Heads Keeps Politics Out of Art, Barry Frederick (being held by Barry),
paper mache, acrylic paint, dried beans, text,13"x 5" x5", 1991

 

Jesus H. Clock, K. L. Campbell, found clock with paper Jesus image,
metal crucifix, plastic rays, 5"x 8"x 3", 1993

 

Oh Fuck! I'm Positive, John Neilson,
paper, rubber glove, human blood, human hair, birth certificate, wood frame, 36"x 24"x 2" 1995

 

Don't Fix My Anger It Is Not Broken, David Reidman,
charcoal on paper, 36"x 24", 1991

 

AIDS Hope, Phil Jauchem,
paper collage and manipulated Xerox photocopy, matte and metal frame, 16'x 30'x 1', 1990

 

Menorah, Carol Siporen,
mono print on Japanese paper, water-based inks, 12' x 10", 1995

 

We Are Afloat In Time, Paul McKay,
collaged papers with text/poem on canvas, acrylic paint, 30" x 40", 1991