Day With(out) Art 2025: Meet Us Where We're At

In honor of World AIDS Day, Palm Springs Art Museum is proud to join with over 150 museums, universities, art institutions, and community organizations across 27 countries in partnering with Visual AIDS for a Day With(out) Art, a day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis. For this program six new short videos provided by Visual AIDS will be screened on a loop throughout Free Thursday Night in the Museum’s Lecture Hall located on the third floor.

Every year, Visual AIDS creates videos by artists and activists and distributes them to institutions for screenings around the world. This year’s theme, Meet Us Where We’re At, forefronts the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis. Harm reduction has long been central to the AIDS movement through practices like needle exchange and safe injection sites, and people who use drugs have been affected by HIV since the earliest days of the epidemic. This program brings their perspectives to the forefront, amplifying the voices of drug users as storytellers, cultural producers, and essential participants in the global response to HIV. Commissioned videos are by artists in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, and Vietnam.

As this is a program centering harm reduction it will contain depictions of sexual activity and drug use.