Patrick James Oconnell News Today

Patrick O’Connell, 67, Dies; Raised Awareness of AIDS With Art As the founding director of Visual AIDS, he helped develop campaigns including “Day Without Art” and, most notably, the ubiquitous red ribbon. Patrick O’Connell, the founding director of Visual AIDS, in his apartment in New York in 1994, wearing the red ribbon that became an international symbol of AIDS advocacy.Credit...Thomas McGovern/Getty Images May 3, 2021, 3:52 p.m. ET Patrick O’Connell, who as the fou...