Aperture Gala 2024 Honoree

THURSDAY, October 18, 2024

Mandarin Oriental 80 Columbus Circle New York City, NY

Please join us as we gather to honor Nicole R. Fleetwood, Richard Misrach, and Helen Nitkin. Each has made an indelible impact on our community through their activism, art, and advocacy.

Aperture’s gala provides vital support for our programming and publications, in pursuit of our mission to create insight, community, and understanding through photography. This year we will also celebrate our impending move to a new permanent home on the Upper West Side.

It will be an unforgettable evening, marking a pivotal moment in Aperture’s history. The gala will feature a live and silent auction. More info here.

Citizenship, Civil Liberties, and the Carceral State

THURSDAY, October 10, 2024, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

UIC Student Center East, Room 302, 750 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607

The Jane Addams College of Social Work and the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs will host a University-wide Symposium

"Citizenship, Civil Liberties, and the Carceral State"

An all-day campus discussion featuring the works of UIC faculty, students, alumnae, and community leaders culminating with the Shirley M. Buttrick Lecture given by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration."

Fleetwood, the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School at New York University, is a celebrated writer, cultural theorist, curator, and art critic. In 2021 she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Her work focuses on Black diasporic art and visual culture, photography studies, art and public practice, performance studies, gender and feminist studies, Black cultural history, creative nonfiction, prison abolition and carceral studies, and poverty studies.

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“So Ruff, So Tuff”: Legacies of Black Midwestern Art and Struggle”

WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2024, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L14 800 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706

Spring 2024 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities:

Nicole R. Fleetwood

James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU

 At this Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities event, Nicole R. Fleetwood draws from her current book project, Between the River and the Railroad Tracks, part memoir and part cultural history of growing up in Hamilton, Ohio. Her exploration of her hometown is a lens to meditate on the cultural life and labor of the Black Midwest through its music, art, and community practices. The title is taken from the hit song “So Ruff, So Tuff” by her family’s funk band Zapp featuring Roger Troutman.

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Event sponsored by theThe Center for the Humanities, UW–Madison.

Book Event - “Rahim Fortune: Hardtack”

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 6:30PM – 8:00 PM

International Center of Photography & Online, 79 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002

Join us at ICP for the New York launch of artist and educator Rahim Fortune's second monograph, Hardtack (Loose Joints, $67). Rahim will

discuss his new publication with art historian and writer Nicole Fleetwood, followed by a signing in the ICP Cafe. The conversation will be accessible in-person and online.

The conversation is free to attend with the price of Late Night ICP admission and includes access to the galleries.

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10th Annual Black History Month Lecture

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024 5:30 PM

Heinz History Center 1212 Smallman Street Pittsburgh PA, 15222

Discover how art provides imprisoned people with a voice during the 10th Annual Black History Month Lecture.

Presented by the History Center’s African American Program, this in-person lecture featuring Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood will discuss how art can heal and humanize in the age of mass incarceration.

More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States.

According to Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities, but it exposes them to deprivation, abuse, and arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system.

Despite that, many of America’s prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they may experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them.

A MacArthur Genius Fellow, curator, art critic, and author of the award-winning “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood will reveal her unique perspective on how the imprisoned use art to express the visual culture of incarceration and its current impact on contemporary art. 

Dr. Fleetwood’s lecture will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience and a book signing.

humanities speaker series: nicole r. fleetwood

WEDNESDAY, December 6, 2023 7 PM

Lied Center of Kansas, University of Kansas, 1600 Stewart Drive, Lawrence KS

Nicole Fleetwood’s Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration powerfully documents the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prisons. Despite the deprivations and cruelties being experienced behind bars, America’s prisons are filled with art. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls.

Nicole Fleetwood is the James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. A 2021 MacArthur Fellow, she is a writer, curator, and art critic whose interests include contemporary Black diasporic art and visual culture, photography studies, gender and feminist studies, and Black cultural history.

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Social Justice Changemaker Lecture: "Incarceration and its aftermath: How art can create pathways to reintegration and healing”

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18, 2023, 12:30 PM

Michigan Union, Rogel Ballroom, University of Michigan, 530 South State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

The Ford School is a proud sponsor the U-M School of Social Work's Social Justice Changemaker Lecture, "Incarceration and its aftermath: How art can create pathways to reintegration and healing."

A discussion between Reuben J. Miller and Nicole R. Fleetwood focuses on the impact of mass incarceration on individuals and society, what life is like after incarceration, and the healing power of art for people impacted by the carceral system.

This annual lecture focuses on important global social justice issues including race and nationality, immigration and refugees, income inequality, gender identity and sexual orientation, education, health, and mental and physical disabilities.

The Social Justice Changemaker Lecture aims to bring prominent social justice experts and advocates from multiple disciplines including social sciences, science, humanities, the arts and other professions to the University of Michigan Campus.

Creativity for Justice: A Conversation with MacArthur Fellows

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2023 6 PM

Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610

Creativity plays an essential role in ushering in a more equitable and inclusive society. MacArthur Fellows have led movements to combat inequality and unjust systems, developed astonishing works of socially engaged art, and offered new narrative frameworks for understanding our society and its complex history.

What is the role of creativity in advancing equity? What can we learn locally in Chicago and what can we share nationally?

Join the Chicago Commitment, Journalism and Media, and MacArthur Fellows programs for a conversation with Fellows who work to advance equity in the areas of arts and culture, media & storytelling, and justice.

Moderator: Lauren Pabst, Senior Program Officer, Journalism & Media

Welcoming Remarks: Juan Salgado, MacArthur Fellow, community leader, MacArthur Foundation Board of Director, and City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor

Panelists:
sujatha baliga, MacArthur Fellow, attorney, and restorative justice practitioner, interrupting criminalization and breaking cycles of recidivism and violence.

Nicole R. Fleetwood, MacArthur Fellow, art historian, and curator, exploring art by incarcerated people.

Sky Hopinka, MacArthur Fellow, artist and filmmaker, developing new forms of cinema that center Indigenous worldviews.

Stanley Nelson, MacArthur Fellow, documentary filmmaker, exploring African American experiences.

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PRISON NATION

THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2023, 2 PM

The Baker Museum, Signature Event Space, 5833 Pelican Bay Blvd, Naples, FL 34108

Lecture by Nicole R. Fleetwood in association with the exhibition Prison Nation

Carceral Time and the Restructuring of Black Life

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 9:00 AM

Critical Border Studies and Accelerator Gallery, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Seminar with Nicole R. Fleetwood, inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Contemporary black diasporic art and the American carceral system are two focal points of Fleetwood’s research. In the seminar, she explores the multiple temporalities that impact the lives of incarcerated people and their loved ones. Carceral time is a broad framework that encompasses sentencing guidelines, the disparate temporalities that separate incarcerated and nonincarcerated people, the afterlife of imprisonment (such as parole and e-incarceration), and the long duration of racialized captivity and erasure in settler nation states. The seminar will focus specifically on how carceral time restructures Black intimacy and quotidian life.

Nicole R. Fleetwood is the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, and the author of a number of books: Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011); On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (2015) and the price winning Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020). In connection with the latter book, she also curated an exhibition on the same topic at MoMA PS1, New York.

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2023 CALS SPEAKERS SERIES

THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2023 6:30 PM

Central Arkansas Library, 100 River Market Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201, United States

Join us for the CALS Speaker Series on Thursday, August 17, for a discussion with Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, moderated by Matthew Fields. The program will start at 6:30PM. A book signing will follow. This event honors Betsey Wright.

Marking Time explores the impact of US incarceration on contemporary visual art, highlighting artists who have been incarcerated alongside artists whose art examines US institutions and systems of confinement. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. The book has been widely celebrated, and won the National Book Critics Award in Criticism, the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association, and the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship among others.

black feminism lives!

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 & 13, 2023

The People’s Forum – 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018

As Black feminists, it is our political mandate to know and examine our rich legacies, lineages, and histories across time, space, and place. It is imperative that we recognize and honor those who paved the way for us to understand Black feminisms as a discipline, praxis, politic, identity, and way of life.

Powered by Black Women Radicals and The School for Black Feminist Politics, Black Feminism Lives! Summit is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Black Feminist Organization and the Power of Black Feminist Politics. A watershed moment in history of Black feminist politics, the NBFO gave rise to other formidable and pioneering Black left feminist organizations such as the Combahee River Collective and the National Alliance of Black Feminists.

An intergenerational Black feminist political convening, Black Feminism Lives! is an homage to the legacy of the NBFO and Black feminist movements and organizers worldwide, who have inspired and politicized a generation of Black feminists, then, now, and for years to come.

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book reading, signing, & discussion with dr. nicole fleetwood

SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2023 5:00 PM

HARLEM WINE GALLERY, 2067 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd New York, NY, 10037

In Conversation: Art, Imagination, and Liberation

SATURDAY, JULY 22, 2023 2:00 PM

Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Join us for this conversation between curators, artists, activists, and writers, as we imagine new and inspiring ways to create and nurture freedom.

The speakers and activists—Dorothy Burge, Nicole Fleetwood, and Mariame Kaba—each engage creative processes as a form of resistance to carceral logic and the everyday violence of the system it enables, working in their own ways to actualize visions of abolition.

This conversation is co-presented by Let’s Get Free and Carnegie Museum of Art on the occasion of Let’s Get Free’s 6th art exhibition, Picture a Free World, at Concept Art Gallery.

This event will be in-person and online. The in-person location is the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater. Dorothy Burge will be in person and Mariame Kaba and Nicole Fleetwood will be zooming in. Zoom links will be emailed directly to registrants.

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WRITIaNG WITH CARE, READING WITH A OPEN HEART

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 2023 1:45 PM

Aaron Douglas Reading Room, Schomburg Center 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10037

Join Nicole Fleetwood and Rachel E. Cargle as they bring care and beauty into conversations about social justice issues and more at this weekend’s Schomburg Center Literary Festival.

MARKING TIME: ART IN THE AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION exhibition opening

MONDAY, MAY 1, 2023, 5:00pm

Schomburg Center 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10037

Experience Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration in all three galleries and stay for a timely artist and curator talk and an immersive musical performance.

5:30 PM Book Signing with Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration." Books will be available for purchase from the Schomburg Shop.

7:00 PM Curator Introduction and Artist Talk featuring Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, artists Gwendolyn Garth, Ndume Olatushani, Gilberto Rivera, and Sable Elyse Smith moderated by Marking Time Exhibition Coordinator, Steven G. Fullwood

8:00 PM ECHOES | GESTURES | ABOLITION, live performance of "Second to Last" featuring composer, musician and scholar Kwami Coleman and percussionist Shakoor Hakeem

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UNLOCKED: "MARKING TIME: ART IN THE AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION"

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2023, 4:00pm

Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium, University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Join the Center for Social Concerns for Unlocked, a series of conversations to better understand and address the problem of mass incarceration featuring perspectives from four preeminent scholars and award-winning authors from different disciplines who will share their work. Our inaugural speaker is Dr. Nicole Fleetwood.

MacArthur “Genius” Nicole R. Fleetwood is a celebrated writer, cultural theorist, curator, and art critic. Growing up in Hamilton, Ohio, she witnessed the vulnerability of her community to excessive policing, punitive surveillance, and mass incarceration, and the direct impact these had on her family, especially her male cousins. The concept for her groundbreaking book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration started in 2010, when she hung photographs of her cousins in Ohio prisons on the walls of her Harlem apartment. Marking Time explores the impact of US incarceration on contemporary visual art, highlighting artists who have been incarcerated alongside artists whose art examines US institutions and systems of confinement. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art.

UNITE RESEARCH SHOWCASE: KEYNOTE ADDRESS

TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2023, Afternoon Address

UNITE Research Priority Area, 251 Dickey Hall
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

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On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, UNITE will host the 2023 UNITE Research Showcase - centered around elevating and promoting the importance of racial equity research at the University of Kentucky, across the Commonwealth, and beyond. This event, which will be held in the Gatton Student Center, is open to UK faculty, staff, and students – in addition to UK affiliates and academic partners. Attendees will gather to hear keynote addresses from national leaders in their fields, breakout sessions presented by local researchers, and a poster session designed to highlight the impactful work of our faculty and students. 

PRESIDENT’S LECTURE: DR. NICOLE FLEETWOOD

THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2023, 6:00 PM

Canzani Auditorium, Columbus College of Art & Design
60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH 43215

Columbus College of Art & Design welcomes MacArthur “Genius” Nicole R. Fleetwood for its spring President's Lecture, part of the Visiting Artists & Scholars series happening 6 p.m. Thursday, April 6, in Canzani Auditorium.

Fleetwood is a celebrated writer, cultural theorist, curator, and art critic. Growing up in Hamilton, Ohio, she witnessed the vulnerability of her community to excessive policing, punitive surveillance, and mass incarceration, and the direct impact these had on her family, especially her male cousins

MILLER LECTURE: DR. NICOLE FLEETWOOD ON ART IN THE AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2023, 5:30 PM

Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
20 Elm Street, Northampton, MA 01063

Celebrated writer, cultural theorist, curator, and art critic Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood will discuss her project, Marking Time, which explores the impact of US incarceration on contemporary visual art. This project highlights artists who have been incarcerated alongside artists whose art examines US institutions and systems of confinement. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art.

Imagining Abolitionist Futures: The Symposium

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023, 5:00 PM – FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023, 7:00 PM

Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue Haverford, PA 19041

This symposium gathers scholars, artists, activists, and educators who share a common goal: dismantling the carceral state and ending the direct and indirect violence it inflicts every day, especially on our most vulnerable communities. Keynote address by Dr. Nicole Fleetwood.

Over the course of a day and a half, they will prompt both one another and symposium attendees to consider the roles that the arts and humanities can play in this ongoing struggle. Discussion topics will include: art and music by and about incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people; historical and archival research, Black study, counter memory, and the meaning of abolition; feminist and LGBTQ+ anticarceral expression and movements; abolitionist pedagogy and the position of the university; cultural institutions and the distribution of resources that maintain or disrupt the carceral state; and the COVID pandemic’s ongoing disparate effects on incarcerated people.

Art Behind and Beyond the Walls: A Discussion Between Nicole Fleetwood and Incarcerated Artists from The DU Prison Arts Initiative

MARCH 6, 2023, 4:00 PM

Virtual event via zoom
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Join Denver University Assistant Professors Sarah Magnatta and Ashley Hamilton for a virtual conversation with Nicole Fleetwood (James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School at New York University) and six incarcerated artists from DU's Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI) as they discuss their artistic and philosophical practices, behind and beyond the walls, and how those practices create transformation and healing. This event is organized by The DU Prison Arts Initiative and the School of Art and Art History and funded by a grant from the Marsico Visiting Scholars Program.

Trans Lineages Symposium

FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2023, 2:00 PM

239 Greene Street, New York University
New York, NY 10003

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The Trans Lineages Symposium is a one-day event centering the trans thinkers who came before us and the trans lineages we extend through our own work, activism, and research. In this symposium we honor and turn back to those who made our work possible, focusing on the importance and necessity of honoring transgender histories, genealogies, and lineages in contemporary work in transgender studies.

Part of the 2x2 Keynote Series: New Edges in Media Studies. Organized and moderated by Media, Culture, and Communication professors Whit Pow and Nicole Fleetwood.

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes by Brett Story

THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2023, 7:00 pm

725 Vineland Place
Minneapolis, MN 55403

How do you make a film about prisons without any incarcerated people? Rather than looking directly at the physical architecture or the people behind bars, Brett Story focuses her critical lens on the systems and structures of the prison industrial complex beyond the prison walls. Moving from a rural Appalachia town, where the mining industry has given way to a penitentiary, to the front lines of wildfires in California, the film looks at where the carceral landscape extends into our everyday surroundings. 2016, Canada/US, DCP, 87 min.

Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Brett Story and Nicole Fleetwood, author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration and curator of the traveling exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

THe Art of interdisciplinarity: bridging visual culture, activist spaces, and diverse communities

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2022, 3PM EST

PROVIDENCE COLLEGE RUANE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES 105

The School of Arts & Sciences is proud to present the first lecture of our Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, which supports the College’s Strategic Plan to promote interdisciplinary approaches to integrative thinking across disciplines.

A Conversation between James Yaya Hough and Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022, 3PM EST

ESPLANADE PLAZA WALL, BATTERY PARK CITY, NEW YORK, NY

Please join us for a conversation between Nicole Fleetwood, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and the curator and author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, and artist James Yaya Hough. The opening event will also feature "Requiem for Fred Hampton" by composer and musician Craig Harris & ensemble.

Justice Reflected is the latest addition to Battery Park City's public art collection of site-specific commissions, environmental landscapes and art, large scale sculpture, and temporary installations that encourage social cohesion and promote awareness about cultural and civic challenges.

Artmaking & Incarceration: Nicole R. Fleetwood with Maria Gaspar

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2022 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT

Despite the isolation, degradation, and cruelties of the criminal justice system, American prisons are filled with the art of the people incarcerated in them. At CHF, Nicole R. Fleetwood (Marking Time) is joined by interdisciplinary artist Maria Gaspar for a conversation about how these artists use limited supplies in harsh conditions to create elaborate works with an important political message.

This program is generously underwritten by the Terra Foundation for American Art. The Festival’s Social Justice & Equity Series is generously underwritten by The Allstate Insurance Company and ITW.

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HNY presents an evening with Reginald Dwayne Betts & Nicole R. Fleetwood

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2022, 6:30 PM EST, FORD CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, NEW YORK

Please Join Humanities New York for its fourth annual “History and the American Imagination,” an evening with poet and prison reform advocate Reginald Dwayne Betts and Nicole R. Fleetwood, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Betts and Fleetwood will discuss the history of incarceration and state violence in the United States and how that history is remembered and represented in American life today. The conversation will address incarceration’s impact on individuals as well as their families and communities, highlighting the process of societal reentry and its depiction in the public sphere. The evening will conclude with an audience question and answer session.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Ohio Justice and Policy Center 25th Anniversary Gala

September 30, 2022 6PM-8PM NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER, CINCINNATI, OHIO

Keynote speaker Nicole Fleetwood will discuss her body of work and the importance of the art and imagery of those directly impacted by the criminal justice system.

Participants will also have the opportunity to connect with former clients and learn their powerful stories of redemption, transformation and how OJPC’s dedicated staff and volunteers have helped them on their path of personal growth and community engagement.

Heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine, beer and soft drinks will be served.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Ohio CDC Association 38th Annual Conference

September 29, 2022 11:45AM - 1:45PM, THE WESTIN CINCINNATI, CINCINNATI, OHIO

Join Ohio CDC Association (OCDCA) at its 38th Annual Conference on September 28-30, 2022. It will be a hybrid event with full in-person activities at The Westin in downtown Cincinnati along with some streamed content for a hybrid experience.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Marking Time Opening Panel, Brown University

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 6-7PM MARTINOS AUDITORIUM IN THE GRANOFF CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, PROVIDENCE, RI

Artists Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Mark Loughney, and Jared Owens will be in conversation with curator Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood. Free and open to the public. 

This event takes place at the Martinos Auditorium in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at 154 Angell Street, Providence, RI.

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration explores the impact of the US prison system on contemporary visual art. This exhibition highlights artists who are or have been incarcerated alongside artists who have not been incarcerated but whose practices interrogate the carceral state. Seen together, their works reveal how punitive governance, predatory policing, surveillance, and mass imprisonment impact everyday life for many millions of people. Art made in prisons is crucial to contemporary culture, though it has been largely excluded from established art institutions and public discourse. Marking Time aims to shift aesthetic currents, offering new ways to envision art and to understand the reach and devastation of the US carceral state.

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RAMZI FAWAZ + NICOLE FLEETWOOD QUEER FORMS

AUGUST 30, 2022 7 PM, THE STRAND, NEW YORK, NEW YORK.

Join us for an in-person event with Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, Ramzi Fawaz for the launch of his new book Queer Forms. Joining Ramzi Fawaz in conversation is writer, curator, and art critic, Nicole Fleetwood. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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closing reception: Marking time art in the age of mass incarceration

AUGUST 7, 2022 6PM EST, NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER, CINCINNATI, OHIO

Please join us for the closing of the Marking Time exhibition on Sunday, August 7 at the Freedom Center . The event will include a panel featuring recently released Marking Time artist Mark Loughney; Kendra Hovey, Executive Director of Healing Broken Circles; and Verjine Adanalian, Attorney with Ohio Justice & Policy Center. The panel will be introduced by professor and curator Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood and moderated by Jatara McGee of WLWT.

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Inaugural Evening with College Art Association Distinguished Awardees and Artists

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021, COLLAGE ART ASSOCIATION AND THE ART STUDENTS LEAUGUE OF NEW YORK, NY

Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, distinguished recipient of CAA’s Frank Jewett Mather and Charles Rufus Morey book awards, discusses her critically acclaimed book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

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Two Icons Lecture: Marking Time - Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

OCTOBER 18, 2021, 3 PM EST, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

Please join Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies and Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies for a lecture by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood on her book and exhibition, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

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Culture x Policy: (In)Justice System

FEBRUARY 18, 2021, 7 PM EST, THE SHED, NEW YORK

In a moment of mass unemployment, in a culture of mass incarceration, and in a society built upon racial capitalism, the demand for complete abolition of prisons and policing reverberates throughout our country. In this panel, policy makers, human rights leaders, and artists, including sujatha baliga, Nicole Fleetwood, Maria Gaspar, and Deanna Van Buren with moderator Prerana Reddy, will introduce their work and describe their visions for a future organized around community well-being and care, free from systems of punishment and control.

In conjunction with the exhibition Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water, this series of online conversations brings together artists, activists, and thinkers to discuss creative, alternative solutions to policy issues like the wealth divide, the injustice of the justice system, and the current crisis of representation in cultural and political life that threatens our democracy.

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Between the Lines: Nicole Fleetwood and Elizabeth Hinton

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020, SCHOMBURG CENTER LITERARY FESTIVAL, 7pm

Nicole Fleetwood and Elizabeth Hinton discuss Fleetwood’s new book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, about how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. The book is based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system. In partnership with NYPL, The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.