Jean Carlomusto Biography

Fast Facts

• A lifelong supporter of the fight against HIV/AIDS, she founded the Media Production Unit at Gay Men's Health Crisis in 1987 and was one of the first members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
• Earned her bachelor's degree from Long Island University and her master's from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
• Quote: "I don't think it's too far-fetched to believe that an end to the HIV/AIDS pandemic is possible in my lifetime․ In fact, I think we must have the vision and the will to bring about this end․"
• Quote: "[on documenting ACT UP's Wall Street protest in March 1987] "I had never been in the middle of a civil disobedience protest with my camera․ I found it exhilarating to be part of a group that was finally fighting back․""
• Is a professor of media arts and the director of the Television Center at Long Island University at Post
• Best known as a documentary filmmaker who directed "Larry Kramer in Love and Anger" and "Sex in an Epidemic․"
• Created the interactive video art exhibit "Offerings," which has been featured in exhibitions at the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the Durban Art Gallery in South Africa
• Her projects are often very personal, most notably "To Catch a Glimpse," in which she explores her own family history to confirm rumors about her grandmother's death