Art lovers, mental health advocates, and local community supporters take part in last year's Art for AIDS event at the Pritzker Building.
As the UCSF Alliance Health Project (AHP) celebrates four decades of defying odds, it will host its 2024 Art for AIDS fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building. This year, Art for AIDS will honor AHP’s 40th anniversary and showcase 165 contemporary and modern art pieces donated by artists, galleries, and collectors from around the country.
“Art for AIDS is made possible through the dedicated and generous efforts of local artists and through the hard work of our AHP staff and community of volunteers,” said William Hua, PhD, director of AHP and an associate health sciences clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
“Year after year, Art for AIDS raises critical funds to serve the most vulnerable in our vibrant communities in San Francisco, making this event such an important part of AHP’s remarkable 40-year history of meeting the mental health and wellness needs of HIV-affected and LGBTQ+ community members.”
Art for AIDS continues to serve as one of San Francisco’s premiere art events, attracting sophisticated art patrons, buyers, and donors. Guests at this year’s event can expect an exciting live art auction with talented auctioneer Theresa Ferrell and returning hosts Sister Roma and Paul Henderson. The event will also feature a lively atmosphere complete with food from Blue Heron Catering, cocktails, wine, complimentary valet service, and live music from DF Productions Live Band.
For the second year in a row, the Art for AIDS live auction gala will be held at the Pritzker Building, symbolizing the inclusive spirit of UCSF and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ commitment to care. The Pritzker Building’s soaring five-story atrium, large windows, and white-oak floors will be transformed into a breathtaking gallery space. Art for AIDS guests can expect to be welcomed into an open, airy, beautifully designed space while raising money to benefit AHP, a community-based organization offering mental health, substance use, and sexual health services to the LGBTQ+ and HIV-affected communities.
Tickets are now on sale and early bird pricing is available through Wednesday, Aug. 28. For more information, visit https://alliancehealthproject.ucsf.edu/art-aids-2024.
Paul Henderson and Sister Roma (center) hosting the 2023 Art for AIDS gala at the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building. Both will return to host the fundraising event's 2024 edition, featuring 165 pieces of contemporary and modern art donated by artists, galleries, and collectors from around the country.
About UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health. Together they constitute one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, with a mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care, and public service.
UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences conducts its clinical, educational, and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building; UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital; UCSF Medical Centers at Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay, and Mount Zion; UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center; the San Francisco VA Health Care System; UCSF Fresno; and numerous community-based sites around the San Francisco Bay Area.
About the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
The UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, established by the extraordinary generosity of Joan and Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill, brings together world-class researchers with top-ranked physicians to solve some of the most complex challenges in the human brain.
The UCSF Weill Institute leverages UCSF’s unrivaled bench-to-bedside excellence in the neurosciences. It unites three UCSF departments—Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurology, and Neurological Surgery—that are highly esteemed for both patient care and research, as well as the Neuroscience Graduate Program, a cross-disciplinary alliance of nearly 100 UCSF faculty members from 15 basic-science departments, as well as the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, a multidisciplinary research center focused on finding effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders.
About UCSF
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is exclusively focused on the health sciences and is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. UCSF Health, which serves as UCSF’s primary academic medical center, includes top-ranked specialty hospitals and other clinical programs, and has affiliations throughout the Bay Area.
