Black Art and Visions of Freedom: MLK Day Keynote with Nicole Fleetwood

Monday, January 18th, 2021 from 12:30pm to 3:00pm (PT)
This has ended. If you attended, let the organizer know by recording your Impact!

About

On Monday, January 18th, AAMP’s MLK Weekend Celebration closes with a special keynote by Marking Time author, Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood. In a lecture entitled Black Art and Visions of Freedom, Fleetwood discusses the centrality of African American visual artists and collectives to Black freedom struggles throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Dr. Fleetwood’s presentation will be followed by a dialogue with select artists from the museum’s Rendering Justice exhibition, along with a Q&A with attendees.
Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood is a writer, curator, and professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020) and the curator of the exhibition of the same name, currently on view at MoMA PS1 through April 4, 2021.  Her other books are On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (2015) and Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011).  She is also co-editor of Aperture magazine’s “Prison Nation” issue, focusing on photography’s role in documenting mass incarceration, and co-curator of Aperture’s touring exhibition of the same name.  Fleetwood has co/curated exhibitions and programs on art and mass incarceration at the Andrew Freedman Home, Aperture Foundation, Cleveland Public Library, Eastern State Penitentiary, MoMA PS1, Mural Arts Philadelphia, the Zimmerli Art Museum, and the Urban Justice Center.  Her work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, NYPL’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, ACLS, Whiting Foundation, Denniston Hill Residency, Schomburg Center for Scholars-in-Residence, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the NEH. 
Positions
0 Remaining
Conferencing Link
GivePulse
0 Positions Filled | 0 Impacts | 0 Hours