Scarlet Speakers in the Heart of Your Home: Art and Activism in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Join Nicole Fleetwood, critic, curator, and professor of American studies and art history at Rutgers, for a presentation on Art and Activism in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

Fleetwood is coeditor of Aperture magazine’s Prison Nation, a special issue focusing on photography’s role in documenting mass incarcerations. She has co-curated exhibitions and public programs on art and mass incarceration at the Andrew Freedman Home, Aperture Foundation, New York; Zimmerli Museum of Art, New Brunswick; Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia; and Cleveland Public Library.

Fleetwood is the author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination, and Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association.