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HIV / AIDS Murals

Xavier Cortada has worked with participants of various HIV/AIDS conferences to create powerful collaborative murals, see samples below.   These murals are important to the artist not just because of their power to commemorate, to educate and to advocate, but because of their ability to document humanity's response to this pandemic. 

To learn more about how you can have Mr. Cortada create a similar mural during your conference or event, please click on the hyperlinks above.

 

Creation of Breaking the Silence collaborative mural with participants of the XIII World AIDS Conference in Durban,South Africa, July 5 - 14, 2000.

wpe5.jpg (5765 bytes)Bridging the Gap mural (Geneva 1998): The multi-lingual text incorporated into the mural offers a natural narrative as hundreds of hands joined to give life to an art project that captures the collective voice of AIDS. A proxy for individuals at various stages of the disease and from all over the world, offering insight into their personal struggles and triumphs. And presenting a full picture of the gains and the stumbling blocks, the disparities and the universalities, associated with the disease.

Voices 2000: Working with participants in the Youth Forum, Family Forum, Provider Institute and Ryan White Title IV Project Director's meeting to develop a collaborative mural for the AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families' Sixth Annual Conference in Washington, DC on May 19- 22, 2000.

wpe3.jpg (2342 bytes)Creation of AIDS awareness movable mural with assistance from youth attending Wilson High School in Washington, DC on April 27 through May 1, 2000.  The USAID-sponsored mural will reproduced as posters for distribution during the XIII World AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa in July 2000.
 

Read Media Articles:

AIDS mural echoes patients’ pleas, hope: Miami artist’s mural an international appeal for help, by Lydia Martin, The Miami Herald, Living and Arts, Miami, Florida, July 4, 1998

Artist crafting mural with worldly message, by Gail Meadows, The Miami Herald Arts (People in the Arts), Miami, Florida, June 21, 1998


To see other of Cortada's HIV / AIDS murals, please visit the following webpages:

Breaking the Silence mural (Durban, South Africa 2000)

Voices 2000 (Washington, DC 2000)

Reaching Out mural (Washington, DC 2000)

Bridging the Gap mural (Geneva 1998)

Voices 99:  Renewing the Commitment (Washington, DC 1999)

Little Havana Initiative's World AIDS Day (Miami 1997)

Voices (Miami 1996-97)
 
The BODEGA de la Familia
HIV/AIDS Mural Project
New York, New York

In September 2002, as part of the Minority HIV Prevention Initiative, La Bodega brought Xavier Cortada, a world-renowned muralist, to the storefront to create an HIV/AIDS mural with neighborhood residents. The result is a powerful testimony to the power of family and community to be parts of the solution to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.



 
Muralist Xavier Cortada begins the 
HIV/AIDS mural (2002). See scrapbook

September 2002 - The HIV/AIDS Mural Project, created by Xavier Cortada

 
 

 

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Xavier Cortada has exhibited his paintings in museums and galleries across the United States, Latin America, Africa, and Europe, and has worked with diverse community groups to create pro-social art projects.

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