In Conversation: Art, Imagination, and Liberation

Join us for this conversation between curators, artists, activists, and writers, as we imagine new and inspiring ways to create and nurture freedom.

The speakers and activists—Dorothy Burge, Nicole Fleetwood, and Mariame Kaba—each engage creative processes as a form of resistance to carceral logic and the everyday violence of the system it enables, working in their own ways to actualize visions of abolition.

This conversation is co-presented by Let’s Get Free and Carnegie Museum of Art on the occasion of Let’s Get Free’s 6th art exhibition, Picture a Free World, at Concept Art Gallery.

This event will be in-person and online. The in-person location is the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater. Dorothy Burge will be in person and Mariame Kaba and Nicole Fleetwood will be zooming in. Zoom links will be emailed directly to registrants.

About the Speakers

Dorothy Burge

Dorothy Burge is a fabric and multimedia artist and community activist—a Quiltivist—who is inspired by history and current issues of social justice.

Nicole Fleetwood

A MacArthur Fellow, Nicole Fleetwood is a writer, curator, and art critic. She is  the curator of the traveling exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration, which debuted at MoMA PS1.

Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is a visionary organizer, writer, educator, and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.

Let’s Get Free

Let’s Get Free is a group working to end perpetual punishment, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly and currently incarcerated, and shift to a culture of transformative justice.

Registration

In person and virtual option available. A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants.