
Symposium Schedule
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
Moderators and Panelists