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Wilkinson, Michelle J.

National Museum of African American History & Culture staff

Research And Grants

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Article

  • Chapter

    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. 2025. "Memory." In Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century. Cunningham Cameron, Alexandra, De León, Christina L., and Wilkinson, Michelle Joan, editors. New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum with the MIT Press. 2025
    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. 2024. "won't you celebrate resilience?" In Margin and Text: Amplifying Diverse Voices in Architecture. West, Betsy, Carlson-Reddig, Kelly, and Gamez, Jose L. S., editors. 38–48. Washington, DC: Princeton Architectural Press. 2024
    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. 2022. "Care/Free/Black/Girl: Illustrating Black Female Interiority." In Imprinted: Illustrating Race. Phillps-Pendleton, Robyn and Haboush Plunkett, Stephanie, editors. 162–173. Stockbridge, Massachusetts: Norman Rockwell Museum. 2022
    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. 2022. "Curating My Way Into Design: A Work in Progress." In The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection. Berry, Anne H., Collie, Kareem, Laker, Penina Acayo, Noel, Lesley-Ann, Rittner, Jennifer, and Walters, Kelly, editors. 420–437. New York: Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Incorporated. 2022
    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. 2021. "Visible by Design." In Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. Anderson, Sean and Wilson, Mabel O., editors. 36–37. New York: Museum of Modern Art. 2021
    • Wilkinson, Michelle J. 2020. "Concrete and Filigree." In Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora. Ali, Grace Aneiza, editor. 165–177. Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0218. 2020
    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan and Hyppolite, Joanne. 2016. "Creating Dangerously: African American Literature." In Dream A World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America. Conwill, Kinshasha H., editor. 252–255. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2016
    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. 2016. "For Whom It Stands: The Flag and Its People." In For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People. Wilkinson, Michelle Joan, editor. 22–63. Baltimore, MD: Reginald F. Lewis Museum. 2016
  • Information Content Entity

    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. 2018. "Shifting the Landscape: Black Architects and Planners, 1968 to Now." 2018
  • Review

  • Webpage

Editor Of

  • Book

    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan, Cameron, Alexandra Cunningham, and DeLeon, Christina L., editors. 2025. Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century. New York: The MIT Press. 2025
    • Wilkinson, Michelle Joan, editor. 2016. For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People. Baltimore, MD: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. 2016

Presentations

  • Exhibit

    • Cunningham Cameron, Alexandra, De León, Christina L., and Wilkinson, Michelle Joan (Curators). 2024. "Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial." New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2024-11-02 to 2025-08-10..
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