Description
This collection includes materials assembled and organized by William R. Alschuler, California Institute of the Arts science
faculty, for a class on the
AIDS epidemic he was teaching in 1993-96, "
AIDS as exhibit." It contains flyers, handouts, newsletters, and other publications from numerous public health departments and
community based organizations in California and around the country with information about
AIDS transmission and prevention, treatment, testing protocols, nutrition, service organizations, legal rights and educational
resources as well as newspaper and journal clippings and course syllabi about the history of the
AIDS epidemic. The final project of this class included exhibits curated by students that were displayed in hallways at California
Institute of the Arts.