As part of the exhibition "Beyond the Bed Covers," Laura Petrovich-Cheney is screening the documentary "The Last One."
Saturday, November 4, 4 - 6 PM
In the eighties and nineties, as AIDS ravaged the United States gay community, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was born out of a public battle for treatment and understanding. "The Last One" is a feature-length documentary tracing its history as an international art project and the role it continues to play as a response to a disease that still imperils vulnerable communities around the world. Through the intensely personal stories of its founders, volunteers, and panel-makers, "The Last One" examines how stigma and discrimination exacerbated and still fuel a disease that has already claimed the lives of 30 million people and currently infects 65 million men, women and children around the globe--including 50,000 new infections a year in the US alone.
"Beyond The Bed Covers"
Featuring Rachel Farmer, Kim Fox, Ariel Jackson, Luke Haynes, Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, Faith Ringgold, Jessica Skultety And Images From The 1987 AIDS Memorial Quilt
2017
A.I.R. is a permanent exhibition space that supports an open exchange of ideas and risk–taking by women artists in order to provide support and visibility. Since 1972, when a group of visionary women artists opened the first gallery space at 97 Wooster Street in Soho, A.I.R. has been leading the way in championing women artists, increasing their visibility and the viability of their endeavors.
The A.I.R. Fellowship Program remains committed to providing support for self identifying women artists in New York City and to encourage artistic experimentation and rigor by providing a space where feminist historical precedence and inter-generational dialogue are at the forefront.
A.I.R. Gallery
155 Plymouth St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201