Inspired by the current exhibition Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South, the Mississippi Museum of Art invites you to join us for a special community dialogue featuring artists, activists, and archivists impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Featured speakers include Jackson-born photographer D’Angelo Lovell Williams —whose work reclaims Black, queer intimacy — Joshua Burford, Co-Executive Director of Invisible Histories, an organization preserving LGBTQ history across the Deep South; and Valencia Robinson, Executive Director of Mississippi in Action.

In conjunction with this event, MMA is proud to honor the tradition of quilting as both a form of remembrance and resistance by highlighting a square of Jackson’s contribution to the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which will be on temporary display starting May 5th for a two-week period at the Museum. This event is free and open to the public and will offer opportunities for the public to commemorate loved ones they have lost to AIDS through a pop-up art-making opportunity where visitors can construct their own quilt square.   

Initiated in 1985, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is a large-scale, ongoing art project that commemorates individuals who have died from AIDS. 

This event is organized by MMA’s Center for Art & Public Exchange (CAPE), supported by the Mellon Foundation.

This event is primarily for adults.