Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

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Marking Time shows how imprisoned people turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art, working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions.  The impact of their art, Fleetwood argues, can be felt far beyond prison walls and offers a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century.

Nicole R. Fleetwood is Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is a writer, curator, and art critic whose interests are contemporary 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. She is the author of three books: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard University Press, 2020), On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (Rutgers University Press, 2015), and Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, which was the recipient of the 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association.

Sponsored by the UF Mellon Intersections Group on Mass Incarceration