Point of Triangulation: Intersections of Identity. Mural Arts Philadelphia. Mural Dedicated October 5, 2021. Photographed by Dr. Deborah Willis and Michael Koehler. Michelle is a Mural Arts Philadelphia Reimagining Re-entry Fellow which supported this project.
As an artist, I look for ways to merge my research interests with my artistry. I grew up in the home of an abstract painter, and I’ve always seen art as an important mechanism to change minds and move people. I am an actor, poet, playwright, mural designer, painter, and stained glass artist. For me, art is breath. I must experience art to breathe, and to live fully.
Point of Triangulation. Multi-media Artist Installation and Exhibition. Lead Artist, Producer and Participant. The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts – NYU Gallatin Galleries, New York University, September 26 – October 1, 2019. Photographed by Tarah Douglas. Michelle is a Right of Return Fellow which supported this project.
Multi-media Artist Installation and Exhibition. Lead Artist, Producer and Participant. Tenth Annual Beyond the Bars Conference, Columbia University, School of Social Work, March 6 – 8, 2020. Photographed by Tarah Douglas.
Point of Triangulation: Intersections of Identity. Multi-media Artist Installation and Exhibition. Lead Artist. Rendering Justice: African American Museum of Philadelphia. October 28, 2020 – January 3, 2021. Photographed by Dr. Deborah Willis. Michelle is a Mural Arts Philadelphia Reimagining Re-entry Fellow which supported this exhibition.
2023 Makes Me Wanna Holla: Art, Death and Imprisonment. Curator and Featured Artist. Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture -University of Chicago, 2022-2023 Practitioner of the People Fellowship. Exhibition Runs July 7 – September 10, 2023. Learn more.
The Duchess of Stringtown, a play by Michelle Jones and Anastazia Schmid has been staged at “New York Live Arts, Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision” (New York, NY, April 2018), the Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis and Indy Convergence (Indianapolis, IN, December, 2017), “Hidden Hate/ Hidden Love, Part II; Staged Reading of Selected Scenes” produced by Anna Deavere Smith (New York, NY, December 2017) and “Hidden Hate/ Hidden Love,” produced by Anna Deavere Smith (New York, NY, October 2017).
