{"id":6705,"date":"2025-05-10T15:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2025-05-12T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:36:54","slug":"the-art-of-survival-aids-posters-and-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6705","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Survival: AIDS, Posters, and Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"8700\" height=\"5425\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AIDS-Posters-Blog-Image-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6710\" style=\"width:474px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p data-start=\"169\" data-end=\"437\">The Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) is proud to host <strong><em data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"320\">AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People\u2019s History of a Pandemic<\/em><\/strong>, a traveling exhibition exploring how communities have used posters and storytelling in response to the AIDS crisis. The exhibit will be on display on the HSHSL&#8217;s second floor from May 9 to June 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"439\" data-end=\"792\">The exhibition draws from the <strong>National Library of Medicine\u2019s (NLM)<\/strong> archive of <strong>public health posters<\/strong> about AIDS, rooted in the work of artists, activists, and community members. These posters use drawing, personal narratives, accessible language, and collective design to send a clear message: more than 40 years after the crisis began, <strong>AIDS is not over<\/strong>. A companion\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/aids-posters\/digitalgallery.html\">digital gallery<\/a><\/strong> showcases a curated selection of fully digitized materials from NLM\u2019s historical collections, offering a deeper look into the history behind the exhibit.<br \/><strong><em><br \/>Credits:<\/em><\/strong><br data-start=\"1330\" data-end=\"1333\" \/><em>AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People\u2019s History of a Pandemic was produced by the National Library of Medicine. It was guest curated by Theodore Kerr, a writer, organizer, and founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) is proud to host AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People\u2019s History of a Pandemic, a traveling exhibition exploring how communities have used posters and storytelling in response to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,100],"tags":[823,306,130,824],"class_list":["post-6705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","tag-aids","tag-nlm","tag-posters","tag-travelling-exhibit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6716,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions\/6716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}