AIDS red ribbon designer Frank Moore, 48
Posted: Saturday, April 27th, 2002 6:39 pm
Frank Moore, a painter and AIDS activist who helped create the red ribbon design that became an international symbol for AIDS awareness, died of complications from AIDS on Sunday, April 21, at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 48 years old.
Moore was one of the first members of Visual AIDS, and he was instrumental in forming the group’s Red Ribbon Project in 1990, according to the New York Times. The project launched the overlapping red ribbon, which was worn on lapels and has become recognizable worldwide as a representation of the struggle against AIDS.
Moore’s paintings, several of which were featured in New York’s Whitney Biennial in 1995, reportedly mix art and politics, and many focus on themes of bioethics or environmental decay. … Read full obituary
