New Orleans AIDS Monument

In the late1990s, and led by Susan Wallins Levingston,[3] funds were raised to commission an international competition to design an outdoor monument to commemorate the victims and families of AIDS.

The competition was won by Washington, DC based artist Tim Tate,[4] with a design which has been described as consisting of "a curved steel structure from which the translucent glass faces of 34 men and women emerge.

It (was the) goal for the monument to create a public landscape where anyone who has been touched by AIDS can find comfort and consolation within a dignified and creative community setting.

Leading up to the memorial, a pathway of granite stones, inscribed with names of loved ones, will allow visitors to reflect on the way this disease has forever transformed our world.

[11][12] Each year on World AIDS Day, the City of New Orleans hosts a wreath laying ceremony at the site of the monument.