This collection includes articles, printed materials, correspondence, photographs, and slides related to Cory Roberts-Auli's art show performances and life as an artist. Materials mostly document his exhibition "The New Shrouds of Turin: The Plague Years" and working with Luz Calvo and Gil Cuadros. Exhibition description:

Conceived by Cory Roberts-Auli, in collaboration with photographer Luz Calvo, this series of portraits present and represent the realities of nine people living with AIDS. Impressing the blood of these individuals on fabric and documenting this process in photos, the artists seek to bring the viewer into direct visual, tactile, olfactory contact with the body in the extremity of in the extremity of disease.

Blood--the literal life and death, the vessel of disease ittself--ishere taken out of the body and displayed. Viewers are almost compelled to experience the panic that comes from contact with the body fluids and the persons of these nine people living and dying with AIDS. The women, men and one child on the canvases have a variety of harrowing experiences to relate. In dealing with the Plague that has descended on their lives, they pause and offer us a glimpse.

This art creates new relics, new Shrouds, and substitutes itself for the cliches of religious imagery, reinscribing AIDS within the Western discourse of martyrdom and transcendence. In doing so, the portraits confron the moral posturing that has been used to isolate and oppress people living and dying with AIDS. The News Shrouds do not represent, they are a repudiation of the stigmatization that has been responsible for perpetuating the spread of HIV epidemic and the deaths of too many people worldwide.