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 Day With(out) Art 2026, a day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis.

This year’s program, seeds in a dying colony, brings together four newly commissioned short videos by artists Edgar Hudson (Tanzania), Bruna Kury and Matheus Mello (Brazil/Spain), Sido Lansari (Morocco/France), and Micaela Cyrino (Brazil). Exploring the afterlives of colonialism and the ongoing HIV epidemic, the works examine how systems of power shape the body, memory, and experiences of care. 

The artists were selected by a jury of filmmakers and mentored through the production process by Amil Shivji, Hiura Fernandes, Ésery Mondesir, and J Triangular.

In response to rising HIV cases and deaths, the program explores how cuts to international aid programs like USAID and PEPFAR expose the continued influence of U.S. and Western power over access to care and the lives most affected.

Join us from 5:00–8:00 p.m. inside the Lecture Hall on the 3rd Floor. Films will run on a loop throughout the evening.