Panels, workshops and events of the symposium will feature local artists and organizations committed to ending mass incarceration and transforming the criminal legal system. The “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” exhibition created by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, a professor of media, culture and communications at New York University, reflects on her commitment to the research and programming of the visual art and culture of mass incarceration.
The hours of the symposium are noon to 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The “Marking Time” exhibition opens Sunday at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in downtown Cincinnati. It will be on display through Aug. 7.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Register at https://markingtime.eventbrite.com.
Fleetwood is from Hamilton and is a 1990 graduate of Hamilton High School. She also graduated from Miami University and Stanford University. She previously has won the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, which came with a $625,000 “Genius Grant” to support her work as an art curator, historian and writer on the topic of prisons.
In July 2021, Fleetwood became the first-ever James Weldon Johnson Professor at New York University. Johnson was the first Black professor hired by NYU, in 1934, and wrote the song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which now is informally known as the “African-American National Anthem.”
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