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Mary Fisher is an artist, activist, speaker and author who travels the world advocating for those who share her HIV-positive status. |
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Creating powerful works in diverse media, Mary fuses artistry to advocacy and passion to purpose. Reaching in, she fashions works that express her life's truths as a mother, an artist and a woman living with AIDS. Reaching out, she sends forth works as messengers of AIDS awareness, to challenge, inspire and teach. Mary's art has been featured in one-woman and group shows, and is found in distinguished private and public collections throughout the United States and the world. |
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 Since her 1992 speech
entitled "A Whisper of AIDS" at
the Republican National Convention, Mary has
reached hundreds of millions of people
around the world with her calls for
compassion and vigilance in the face of
AIDS. She has served as an ambassador for
the
Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and on the Leadership
Council of the Global Coalition on Women and
AIDS. An accomplished public speaker, Mary
frequently is profiled and quoted in the
media; her speeches, words and photographs
fill five books.In the United
States, Mary founded
the
Mary Fisher CARE
(Clinical AIDS
Research and
Education) Fund to
support long-term,
outcomes-based
research for the
care of people
living with HIV,
especially women. In
Africa, she
established support
groups where women
infected or affected
by HIV/AIDS can earn
a living wage,
producing
hand-beaded
bracelets that Mary
designed and markets
in the United
States.
Before
gaining international recognition as a
chronicler of the global AIDS epidemic, Mary
was a television producer and an assistant
to the President of the United States. She
now makes her home in Sedona, Arizona. |
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