Not exact matches
Excludes the Putnam School District in Washington County, which would receive a 35 percent increase in Foundation
Aid due to a $ 75,000 allocation of
community schools funds.
The exhibition coincides with other shows and events that can be seen as augmenting its perspective by giving additional visibility to
AIDS - affected individuals and
communities that have been neglected
due to racial, gender, or institutional bias.
A presence in the East Village arts
community since 1980 (with fellow artists Greer Lankton, Huck Snyder, Luis Frangella, David Wojnarowicz, Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, Hugh Steers, and Mark Morrisroe — most of whom are in the Visual
AIDS Archive), Rhein experienced not only the
community's creative explosion, and also its profound devastation
due to the
AIDS epidemic.
Yet they are in many cases invisible, and the fear is that many remain undiagnosed and untreated
due to the shame and stigma still associated with HIV and
AIDS in the
community.