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“Little, Brown Signs Fleetwood’s ‘Tracks’” Publishers Weekly, 5 August, 2022.
“NYU Receives $1M Grant from the Mellon Foundation for Prison Art Initiative” NYU Steinhardt News, 26 July, 2022.
“Curator Nicole Fleetwood Promotes Abolition Through Art” W Magazine, by Abigail Glasgow, 22 April 2022.
“The Radical Connections Between Art and Incarceration,” with artist Russell Craig, interviewed by Melissa Harris-Perry, The Takeaway, 27 January 2022.
Gordon Parks Foundation Names Bisa Butler, Andre D. Wagner, and Nicole R. Fleetwood as Fellows,” by Andy Battaglia, Artnews, 26 January 2022.
“Bisa Butler, Andre D. Wagner, and Nicole Fleetwood Names Gordon Parks Fellows,” Hyperallergic, by Hakim Bishara, 26 January 2022.
“Gordon Parks Foundation Names 2022 Fellows,” Artforum, 26 January 2022.
“The Deciders 2022,” Artnews, guest edited by Hank Willis Thomas, December 2021.
“This Curator Shows How Art Became a Lifeline for Those in and out of Prison,” by Justin Stabley, PBS NewsHour, 29 October 2021.
“Two NYU profs, one alum receive 2021 MacArthur Fellowships,” by Carmo Moniz, Washington Square News, 26 October 2021.
“Hamilton Native Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Fellowship,’ Journal-News, 23 October 2021.
“Anti-Racist Author Ibram X. Kendi and Art Historian Nicole Fleetwood Among 2021 MacArthur Genius Grant Winners,” by Jeroslyn Johnson, Black Enterprise, 30 September 2021.
“MacArthur Foundation Announces 2021 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners,” by Matt Stevens and Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times, 28 September 2021.
“Artists Jordan Casteel and Daniel Lind-Ramos, Art Historian Nicole Fleetwood Win MacArthur Fellowships,” by Alex Greenberger, ARTnews, 28 September 2021.
“Jordan Casteel, Nicole Fleetwood, and Daniel Lind-Ramos Named MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellows,” by Hakim Bishara, Hyperallergic, 28 September 2021.
“National Book Critics Circle Names 2020 Award Winners,” by Alexandra Alter, The New York Times, 25 March 2021.
Interview, NYC-ARTS Choice, WNET, 19 Nov 2020.
Interview, All of It with Alison Stewart, WNYC, 25 September 2020.
“Nicole Fleetwood on Black Lives Matter and Her Book,” interviewed by Matt Dagher Margosian, Asia Art Tours, 6 July 2020.
“The Mug Shot, a Crime Story Staple, Is Dropped by Some Newsrooms and Police,” by Maria Cramer, The New York Times, 3 July 2020.
“When Crime Photography Started to See Color,” by Bill Shapiro, The Atlantic, 16 June 2020.
Interview, Radio Ohio Prison Arts Coalition, 22 May 2020.
“Making Space and Marking Time,” by Chloe Hayward, Studio Magazine, May 2020:.
“Imagining Freedom: A Conversation with Nicole Fleetwood and Virginia Grise,” Exposure Magazine, April 2019.
“Blackface Lawn Ornaments Still Being Manufactured in New Jersey, Sold Online on eBay,” NBC New York 4, 17 December 2018.
“How Photography Shines a Light on America’s Dark Prison System,” text by Miss Rosen, Dazed Media, 22 March 2018. *interview to highlight Aperture magazine’s special issue, “Prison Nation”
“What Would it Take to Actually See What Life is Like in Prison?,” by John Washington, TheNation.com, 6 March 2018.
*an extended review of Prison Nation exhibition at Aperture Foundation Gallery
“What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, 1 March 2018.
*a review of Prison Nation exhibition at Aperture Foundation Gallery
“Prison Nation: Portraits from a Mass Incarceration Crisis,” by Jacopo Prisco, CNN.com, Style: Arts, 28 February 2018.
“One Nation, Behind Bars: Examining Prison Culture Through Photography,” by Siddhartha Mitter, The Village Voice, 28 February 2018.
*an extended review of Prison Nation exhibition at Aperture Foundation Gallery
“Portrayals of Prisoners Complicate Stereotypes and Implicate the US,” by Phillip Griffith, Hyperallergic, 23 February 2018.
Prison Nation featured in “Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, 12 & 19 February 2018: 12.
“Exhibition Review: Prison Nation,” by Ava McLaughlin, Musée: Vanguard of Photography Culture, 9 February 2018.
“Snapshot: ‘Prison Nation’ at the Aperture Foundation gallery,” by Kitty Grady, Financial Times, 9 February 2018.
“Seeking Humanity in a Prison Passion Play,” by Andrew Boryga, The New York Times, Lens Series, 6 February 2018.
“A New Exhibit of Prison Photos Depicts Life Behind Bars,” by Kevin Phinney, MetroSource, Art & Design, 12 January 2018.
*a preview of Prison Nation exhibition at Aperture Foundation Gallery
“What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” by Martha Schwendener, The New York Times. Art & Design Section. 1 June 2017.
*a review of State Goods: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration at the Andrew Freedman Home
“On the 'A' w/Souleo: New Book Positions Obama, Trayvon Martin, and Diana Ross as 'Racial Icons'” by Peter “Souleo” Wright, HuffingtonPost. “Black Voices.” 23 July 2015.
"On Prison Art, Public Culture and Racial Icons." Left of Black. Season 5, Episode 16. 21 January 2015. Weekly webcast hosted by Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal and produced by John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies.
“Marking Time: Exhibit Shows Prison-Made Art,” Interviewer and Reporter: Emma Jacobs, WNYC.org, 20 November 2014.
“Groundbreaking Prison Arts Conference at Rutgers,” by Kaila Boulware, New Brunswick Today 8 October 2014.
“Prison Arts Conference,” Monocle 24, London-based radio magazine, 8 October 2014.
“Insider Art: How Prison Populations Express Themselves to the Outside World.” Rutgers Today. 6 October 2014.
Dreams Are Colder Than Death, directed by Arthur Jafa (2013). Documentary meditation on contemporary life for black Americans 50 years after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech.”
“Portraits from Inside, Looking Out: The Charged Art of Prison Paintings.” Interviewer and Author: Karol Kino. New York Times. Art & Design. 18 July 2013.
“Rutgers Academic Examines Art-Making as Strategy for Survival.” Feature Story by Fredda Sacharow. Rutgers Today 14 June 2013.