Join more than 1,500 artists for Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS’s annual benefit art sale.

Donate one original 4 × 6 artwork. Every work is exhibited anonymously and sold for $100 to support Visual AIDS—and the artist’s identity is revealed only after purchase.

Submission deadline: Friday November 20, 2026

How does Postcards work?

  • • 1 •

    Make a 4×6 artwork.

    Painting, drawing, photography, collage, printmaking —we welcome original works in any medium that fits the size requirement.

  • • 2 •

    Send it to Visual AIDS.

    Participation is free and open to artists anywhere in the world. One artwork per artist.

  • • 3 •

    We exhibit it anonymously.

    Your work joins more than 1,500 postcards by emerging and established artists—with every artist’s identity kept secret.

  • • 4 •

    A collector chooses the art—not the name.

    Every postcard is sold for $100 to benefit Visual AIDS. Only after purchase does the collector discover who made it.

Ready to make your postcard?

submit your artwork

First time participating? Please read through the guidelines before you submit.

join artists around the world

  • Artists

  • Every Artwork

  • Years of Postcards from the Edge
credit: Steven Rosen
© Steven Rosen

Past participants have ranged from first-time exhibitors to artists who have shaped the art world, like Julie Mehretu, Kara Walker, Sarah Sze, Catherine Opie, Kiki Smith, Pope.L, Marilyn Minter, Katherine Bernhardt, Louise Lawler, Lola Flash, Tom Burr, Felipe Baeza, Anthony Cudahy, Clifford Prince King, Tabboo!, and many more.

One small artwork makes a big difference

Postcards from the Edge is one of Visual AIDS’s most important annual fundraisers, raising more than $145,000 each year. Your artwork helps us support artists living with HIV, preserve the work and legacies of artists lost to AIDS, and create exhibitions and programs that keep HIV and AIDS visible in contemporary culture.

Together, participating artists help make this work possible.

NYC Pride March, 2018. © Elliot Luscombe

Ready to make your postcard?

submit your artwork

First time participating? Please read through the guidelines before you submit.

SUBMIT YOUR ARTWORK