José Torres-Tama is a published poet and playwright, journalist and photographer, renegade scholar and arts educator, visual and performance artist, cultural activist and Artistic Director of ArteFuturo Productions in New Orleans. Torres-Tama will perform his solo satirical work, ALIENS, IMMIGRANTS AND OTHER EVIL DOERS at Brown on Thursday, November 17 at 7pm and Friday, November 18 at 7pm in Martinos Auditorium in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Both performances are free and open to the public.
November 9, 2022: “Bianca Diaz Book Talk and Signing”
Artist and illustrator Bianca Diaz will discuss her career and most recent book, See You Soon (written by New York Times best-selling author Mariame Kaba), a poignant, beautifully illustrated children’s book about a little girl named Queenie who worries when her Mama gets sick and goes to jail. Will Mama have a warm bed to sleep in? Will she get better? Can love bridge the distance between them?
The Department of Visual Art at Brown University presents a talk by Sable Elyse Smith. Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in New York. Using video, sculpture, photography, and text, she points to the carceral, the personal, the political, and the quotidian to speak about a violence that is largely unseen, and potentially imperceptible.
How does mass incarceration affect Rhode Island? How are local organizations working to address human harm and conflict? Join Africana Studies Assistant Professor Lisa Biggs for a frank discussion with local artists and activists about the state of policing, prisons, and human wellbeing in Rhode Island. Panelists include local artists John Barnes and Leonard Jefferson, Nick Horton from OpenDoors, and Raquel Baker from the Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women.*
The Brown Arts Institute presents an exclusive preview of Spiz, a documentary about the life and work of artist Dean Gillispie. Gillispie’s sculptures are currently on view at the Bell Gallery in Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Following the screening, Gillispie will discuss his practice with curator Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood.
Join Marking Time artists Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Mark Loughney, and Jared Owens in the Bell Gallery as they discuss their artworks. Enjoy refreshments, a scavenger hunt, and giveaways!
Join us for an opening reception for Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Food and refreshments will be provided. Free and open to the public.
Organized with the Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice at University of Cincinnati and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Event Locations: Linder Hall on the campus of the University of Cincinnati and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
February 17, 2022: “Carceral Visualities with Elizabeth Hinton, American Artist, Nicole Fleetwood”
American Artist and Yale professor Elizabeth Hinton will join MCC professor Nicole R. Fleetwood for a discussion of their work. The conversation will focus on their sustained engagement with racialized surveillance and criminalization; anti-Black policies; and the past, present, and future/dissolution of the US carceral state. Register online.
December 7, 2021: “Virtual AEIVA “Marking Time” Closing Event
Join AEIVA for an engaging discussion with several artists featured in the “Marking Time” exhibition focusing on centering incarceration in their art. Moderated by curator Nicole Fleetwood, Ph.D.
November 29, 2021: “Men’s Training, A Special Reading”
“Theatre’s Call to Action,” a Birmingham Southern College course, will present a special reading of “Men’s Training” by Daoud Boone, a playwright who is incarcerated at Limestone Correctional Facility. Registration is required to attend this virtual event.
November 11, 2021: “Spoken Word at AEIVA”
November 10, 2021: “Mass Incarceration on Trial”
October 28, 2021: “Chamber Music @ AEIVA: Marking Time”
Free chamber music performed by some of Alabama’s top musicians and thoughtfully curated in response to artworks currently on display in AEIVA’s current exhibition, “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Presented by AEIVA and the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Music. Organized by Laura Usiskin, cellist for the Alabama Symphony. Registration is required to attend this virtual event. Register online.
October 21, 2021: “AEIVA Movie and a Tour Night”
Join AEIVA staff for a tour of current exhibitions, followed by a film screening and discussion related to AEIVA’s current exhibition “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Tour starts at 6 p.m.
October 12, 2021: “State of Alabama Prisons, Past and Present”
Join us for a lively panel discussion at AEIVA with journalists, educators and advocates discussing the impact of the carceral state in Alabama. Registration is required to attend this virtual event. Register online.
October 9, 2021: Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood in conversation with: Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter aka Isis Tha Saviour Jared Owens Gilberto Rivera
Saturday, October 9th, 4:00pm EST. Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood in conversation with: Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter aka Isis Tha Saviour, Jared Owens. & Gilberto Rivera
Martos Gallery is pleased to host a conversation between artists Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Jared Owens, Gilberto Rivera and Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, author and curator of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, and recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2021. The artists will discuss their innovative practices, formed under carceral conditions newly elucidated by Fleetwood’s scholarship and exhibitions, on the occasion of The Collective: Chosen Family, at Martos through October 23. This discussion will be streamed live on Martos Gallery’s instagram and will be linked on the website following the event.
October 7, 2021: AEIVA’s “Outside the Lines: Tameca Cole”
Birmingham visual artist and writer Tameca Cole will conduct a collage workshop at AEIVA. Cole’s work is featured in “Marking Time.” Registration is required to attend this virtual event. Register online.
Sep 17, 2021: AEIVA Opening Night Panel Discussion
Join AEIVA for an opening night panel discussion for “Marking Time,” a major exhibition exploring the works of artists within United States prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture. Registration is required to attend this virtual event.
Aug 1, 2021: Special Exhibition: Systemic Impact, Spring Hill Arts Gathering
Systemic Impact: Process and Experimentation of (Formerly) Incarcerated Artists. SHAG, in collaboration with the Art for Justice Fund, presents a special exhibition, Systemic Impact: Process and Experimentation of (Formerly) Incarcerated Artists. The presentation is organized by Nicole Fleetwood and Jesse Krimes.
July 11, 2021: De Appel Lecture
.Abolitionist Imaginaries was an online program serving as an interdisciplinary space for presentations and discussions from a diverse range of scholars, artists, and activists focused on historicizing, theorizing, and deconstructing the carceral state and its expansive and diffusive structures and economies. Panels considered histories, practices, institutions, and collective movements to transform and abolish carceral frameworks.
April 1, 2021: Chosen Family: Marking Time Artist Talks with Mary Baxter
Conversations between Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter and her fellow artists in Marking Time, bring a wide range of voices into dialogue to consider how bonds are forged through and around creative practice in the face of state-imposed separation. How does incarceration impact existing relationships, and how can art construct new forms of connection—a “chosen family”—in turn?
March 26, 2021: Abolitionist Imaginaries One-Day Symposium
.Abolitionist Imaginaries was an online program serving as an interdisciplinary space for presentations and discussions from a diverse range of scholars, artists, and activists focused on historicizing, theorizing, and deconstructing the carceral state and its expansive and diffusive structures and economies. Panels considered histories, practices, institutions, and collective movements to transform and abolish carceral frameworks.
March 24, 2021: Honoring Ronnie Goodman
.A program honoring the life, work, and immense impact of artist Ronnie Goodman (1960-2020)
March 20, 2021: Die Jim Crow
.An evening of musical performances from BL Shirelle and Naomi Blount Wilson, a virtual performance from currently incarcerated Americana band Territorial, and discussions about the difficulties and joys of making music while in prison.
Jan 28, 2021: Pens to Pictures
Presented in conjunction with Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Pens to Pictures co-presents an evening of screenings and conversation. Pens to Pictures is a filmmaking collaborative that teaches and empowers incarcerated women to make their own short films, from script to screen. During its inaugural year in 2016, five films were made in a partnership between women in Dayton Correctional Institution (DCI) and communities of artists based in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. This program will include screenings of BANG! (2016) by Kamisha Thomas, Love or Loyalty (2016) by Tyra Patterson, Transparent (2016) by Jamie Ochs, The Devastating Game (2016) by Beverly Fears, and For They Know Not (2016) by Aimee Wissman. A talkback moderated by curator, writer, and editor, Dessane Lopez Cassell concludes the program.
Jan 27, 2021: Curatorial Conversation: Art and Mass Incarceration
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Jan 18, 2021: MLK Day Keynote Presentation with Nicole Fleetwood
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Jan 13, 2021: California African American Art Museum Lecture
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Dec 2, 2020: Literature for Justice Launch Event Panel, National Book Foundation
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Nov 19, 2020: Create and Connect, with artist Kenneth Reams, In the Box series, Justice Arts Coalition
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Nov 17, 2020: Visuality and Carceral Formations, with scholars Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Oct 29, 2020: Book and exhibition talk with artists Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter and James Hough, Global South Center, Pratt Institute
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Oct 27, 2020: Rendering Justice exhibition panel, African American Museum of Philadelphia and Mural Arts Philadelphia
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Oct 8, 2020: Shifter: Waiting, Session 2
Nicole Fleetwood in conversation with artist Kevin Jerome Everson, co-hosted by MIT List Visual Arts Center and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Oct 3, 2020: Freedom and Arts Engagement, Rights in Focus Network, Autograph, UK
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Oct 2, 2020: Burke Lecture Series, Indiana University
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Sept 23, 2020: Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective
Distinguished Lecture Series
Sept 21, 2020: Schomburg Literary Festival, co-organized by the NYPL Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
Nicole Fleetwood in conversation with scholar Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
August 11, 2020: The Brooklyn Rail
New Social Environment Panel with Nicole Fleetwood, artist Gil Batle, artist Ray Materson, and gallerist Frank Maresca, moderated by Rail Editor-at-Large Choghakate Kazarian
August 5, 2020: Narrative Medicine Rounds series in conversation with artist Lisette Oblitas and scholar Nigel Hatton, Columbia University
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July 20, 2020: Intellectual Publics
August 5, 2020: Narrative Medicine Rounds series in conversation with artist Lisette Oblitas and scholar Nigel Hatton, Columbia University
July 16, 2020: MoMA Virtual Views
Gordon Parks Panel/ Live Q&A with Nicole Fleetwood, scholar Khalil G. Muhammad, and MoMA curator Sarah Meister
July 16, 2020: Scarlet Speakers Series: Art and Activism in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Book talk and Q&A
June 11, 2020: The Confined Arts Program
June 2, 2020: Aperture Foundation
Nicole Fleetwood in conversation with Antwaun Sargent, author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion
May 22, 2020: Ohio Prison Arts Connection via Facebook Live
Book talk and Q&A
May 18, 2020: The Petey Greene Program
Book talk and Q&A
May 14, 2020: Politics & Prose Bookstore
Nicole Fleetwood in conversation with Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black
May 13, 2020: Labyrinth Books Princeton
Nicole Fleetwood in conversation with scholar Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
May 11, 2020: Harlem Stage via Instagram Live and Facebook Live
A Deeper Dive Conversation: Marking Time: Prisons in the Lives of Black Women
Nicole Fleetwood in conversation with artists and activists Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Asia Johnson, and Michelle Jones about the impact of prisons on black women and their activism to get people released from carceral facilities during the pandemic
May 7, 2020: Revolution Books, NYC
Nicole Fleetwood in conversation with artists James Hough & Russell Craig, moderated by activist Carl Dix
May 6, 2020: Mural Arts Philadelphia
muraLAB: Art in Action—Morality of the Moment
Panel discussion with Mural Arts Reimagining Reentry Fellow Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Philadelphia DA Artist-in-Residence James Hough, Greg Corbin of Mural Arts, and Jasmine Heiss of the Vera Institute of Justice
April 28, 2020: Marking Time Book Launch, hosted by MoMA PS1 and Harvard University Press
Nicole Fleetwood in conversation with poet and scholar Fred Moten, artist and activist Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, and artist and curator Jesse Krimes