Aesthetics of Unfreedom: Art, Captivity, and the Carceral State

Nicole R. Fleetwood is a writer, curator, and professor of American Studies at Rutgers University, New
Brunswick.
Her books are Marking Time: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration (forthcoming), On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (2015), and Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011).
She is co-editor of Aperture magazine’s “Prison Nation,” a special issue focusing on photography’s role in documenting mass incarceration.
Fleetwood has co/curated exhibitions on art and mass incarceration at the Andrew Freedman Home, Aperture, Cleveland Public Library, Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick Free Public Library, and the Corrections Accountability Project of the Urban Justice Center.

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC) See map
63 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511