This creative development residency is the first part of two D.C. visits centering the engagement of D.C.-metro area community members through Wilkins’s latest work The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging.

PURPLE is a multi-project universe that illuminates the power of deep sisterhood for social change through storytelling and movement.

Black Madonna and Miss America is an investigation of socio-political happenings in conversation with the positioning of the Black female icon in public and private spheres-in the church, on the stage and in the streets.