12:00p

Opening Remarks by Nicole R. Fleetwood and Jenn Dye, Director of the Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice

12:15p

Panel: Spotlighting Ohio Artists

Moderator: Rachel McMillian

Panelists: Dean Gillispie, Kamisha Thomas, Raymond Towler, Keith LaMar

1:30p

15-minute break

1:45p

Performance: Tronee Threat

2:00p

Panel: Abolitionist Feminism

Moderator: Jessie Glover

Panelists: Asia Johnson, Rowan Renee, Ashley Hunt, Jillian Hernandez

3:15p

15-minute break

3:30p

Panel: We Build Together: System-Impacted Artists Led Initiatives and Collectives

Moderator: Shani Jamila

Panelists: Aimee Wissman, Russell Craig, Gary Harrell, Kenneth Reams

9:00a

Opening Remarks

9:15a

Panel: Beyond Incarceration: Collaborating to End the Carceral State

Moderator: Christian McLean

Panelists: Gary Fine, Ronald McKeithen, Laurie Brooks, Dena Dickerson

10:30a

In Conversation: Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter and Anisa Jackson

11:00a

Presentation: Archival Legacies

Panelists: Miranda Mims and Steven G Fullwood

11:30a

Conversation: Public Art Practices

Moderator: Alexandra Lee

Panelists: Maria Gaspar, Lisette Oblitas, jackie sumell

12:15p

Lunch onsite

1:00p

Panel: Photography and the Aesthetics of Incarceration

Moderator: Xavier Hadley

Panelists: Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormick, Larry Cook, Sara Bennett

2:15p

15-minute break

2:30p

Panel: Creating an Artist’s Life in the Shadow of the Carceral State

Moderator: Amy Rosenblum-Martín

Panelists: William Livingston, Jared Owens, Carole Elizabeth Alden, Conor Broderick

3:45p

15-minute Break

4:00p

Panel: Art, Activism, and Collectivities

Moderator: Katie Sellers

Panelists: Assia Johnson, Ojore Lutalo, Ndume Olatushani, Henry Frank

5:15p

Performance: Superpredator to Superhero: An Artist Presentation by Halim A. Flowers

11:00a – 2:00p

Optional Tour of Underground Railroad Sites and Lunch

3:00p – 5:00p

Optional Visit to view the exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration at the Freedom Center

5:15p

Closing Reception at the Freedom Center

6:00p

Master of Light screening followed by a conversation with featured artist George Anthony Morton and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Mitchell S. Jackson, moderated by Nicole R. Fleetwood at the Freedom Center