EventsCommon Ground#708
Visual AIDS
Featuring Esther McGowan and Theodore Kerr, with Ted Rees
Thursday, December 8, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Visual AIDS Executive Director Esther McGowan joins Rail contributor Theodore Kerr for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Ted Rees.
In this Talk
Esther McGowan
Esther McGowan is the Executive Director of Visual AIDS, and was Associate Director from 2012 to 2017. She has worked as a fundraiser, administrator, and grantmaker with a variety of arts organizations over three decades, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Watermill Center, Arts International, Art Matters, Center for Fiction, Alliance for the Arts, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Theodore Kerr
Theodore (ted) Kerr is a writer and organizer. He is a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? He and Alexandra Juhasz have recently released the book WE ARE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION NOW: THE TIMES OF AIDS CULTURAL PRODUCTION.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨