Reading List for Public Art Discussion

For those of you attending our discussion on October 5 as part of Professor Laura Holzman’s Art and Power Course, here are some resources.

Please read the following:

• Prison Policy Initiative, “Indiana Profile” (Northampton, MA: Prison Policy Initiative, September 2021), https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/IN.html.

• Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner, “Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023” (Northampton, MA: Prison Policy Initiative, March 14, 2023), https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html.

• Michelle Alexander, “The New Jim Crow,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 9, no. 1 (2011): 7–26, https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/73367.

If you would like to read more on similar themes relating to art, you might be interested in the following.

• Zachary Small, “What Curators Don’t Get About Prison Art,” October 18, 2019, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/prison-art-shows-essay/

• Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020)

• Alex Greenberger, “Incarcerated Artists Are Making Some of Today’s Most Important Art. A Powerful New Book Explains Why,” ARTnews.Com (blog), July 8, 2020, https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/prison-art-nicole-fleetwood-jesse-krimes-russell-craig-tameca-cole-1202693793/.