Conversations from the Cullman Center: CANCELED: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Nicole Fleetwood and Elizabeth Hinton

Nicole Fleetwood and Elizabeth Hinton discuss Fleetwood’s new book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, about how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. The book is based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system.

Nicole R. Fleetwood is professor of American studies and art history at Rutgers University. Her work on art and mass incarceration has been featured at the Aperture Foundation, the Zimmerli Museum of Art, the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, and the Cleveland Public Library, and her exhibitions have been praised by the Nation, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice. She is the author of On Racial Icons and of Troubling Vision, which won the Lora Romero Prize from the American Studies Association. She worked on Marking Time during her Cullman Center Fellowship in 2016-2017, as the ACLS / NYPL Fellow.

Elizabeth Hinton is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the social sciences in the department of history and the department of African and African American studies at Harvard University. She is the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, which has received numerous awards, including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize from the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was named to the New York Times’s 100 notable books of 2016. She recently won an Andrew Carnegie fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation and the Rosslyn Abramson Award for Excellence and Sensitivity in Teaching Undergraduates from Harvard University.

As a precaution to help limit the spread of coronavirus and support the City's efforts to promote social distancing, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building has temporarily suspended all programming and events.​ For updates and more information, please visit nypl.org/coronavirus.

Accordingly, the Conversation from the Cullman Center with Nicole Fleetwood and Elizabeth Hinton scheduled for Tuesday, March 24th, is cancelled. We hope to reschedule at a later date.