Marking Time

The Marking Time team bids a fond farewell to Steven G. Fullwood, our brilliant Lead Archivist. His vision, joy & commitment to justice shaped this project in profound ways. Wishing him all the best as he continues his work with Nomadic Archivists Project 💜

Watch the conversation below: youtu.be/dB32P9A-0aI Pictured Works by Marcus Manganni: Image1: WINTER’S PASSAGE, 2023 Image2: GENERAL POPULATION, 2021 Image3: Bending Normal, 2017 Image4: Special Housing Unit, 2018 Image5: Light Support, 2020 Image6: Love Letter, 2022

Manganni’s work has been featured by organizations like the Ford Foundation, The Center for Art and Advocacy, and Brackett Creek Exhibitions.

Marking Time Graduate Researcher Xavier Hadley sat down with artist, Art for Justice (@art4justicefund), and Right of Returnfellow Marcus Manganni (@Mecosroman) to talk about art, its relationship to mental health, and the history of his work.

5/5 In the galleries there is space for the variety of creative solutions with which the artists have given voice to their own history." Pictured work: Mark Loughney, Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration, 2014-present #markingtimeartintheageofmassincarceration

4/5 She is the curator of the exhibition and author of the book of the same title that came before it, resulting from 10 years of research and interviews with over 60 artists.

1/5 Maurita Cardone (@Mauritacardone) covered Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration in an article for the Italian magazine, Giornale Delle'Arte.

**The Marking Time exhibition is currently on view at the Schomburg thru Dec. 4, 2023. Book signing will follow the talk.Learn more using the link in  bio at #schomburglitfest #rachelcargle #ARenaissanceofOurOwn #nicolefleetwood #markingtimeartintheageofmassincarceration

JUN 17 | 1:45 PM Rachel E. Cargle (@RachelCargle) A Renaissance of Our Own @randomhouse Nicole R Fleetwood Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration @harvardpress

This Saturday at @schomburgcenter literary festival, Dr. Nicole R Fleetwood will be in conversation with Rachel Cargle to celebrate her new book and to talk about care in writing, mapping out their own paths, and so much more.

(3/3) During the ceremony, Dr. Fleetwood, a Miami 1994 alumna, was also awarded an honorary doctorate degree. Above is a clip from her speech. Listen to the speech in full at youtu.be/tkY9HRo0Rgk

(2/3) In her moving speech, Dr. Fleetwood urged the class of 2023 to “to live in a state of reverence,” and to be mindful of the communal efforts that make their education possible and meaningful.

(1/3) Marking Time author/curator, Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, was the keynote speaker at Miami University’s 184th Spring Commencement on May 13, 2023.

The Wednesday Read: @MarkingTimeArt is a traveling art exhibition currently on view at the @SchomburgCenter Center for Research in Black Culture and featuring justice-impacted artists. Read the full article: ow.ly/wNTs50OksLx

the BECC connected its direct actions against museums to the need for cultural exchanges with incarcerated people to challenge the conditions of prisons and the cultural and educational deprivation they enforced (Fleetwood 2020).

cultural institutions, specifically the infamous exhibit Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...After the Attica uprising—and the state's violent response, in which incarcerated protestors were massacred—

Opening on May 1 at the Schomburg Center, the exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration will include archival documents from the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) housed in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books division of the library,