Michelle Joan Wilkinson

Supervisory Museum Curator, Architecture and Design, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Michelle Joan Wilkinson is a supervisory museum curator of Architecture and Design at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Wilkinson organized Shifting the Landscape: Black Architects and Planners, 1968 to Now, a three-day symposium at NMAAHC. She was a 2020 Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2024, Wilkinson co-curated Making Home – Smithsonian Design Triennial, a collaboration between Cooper Hewitt and NMAAHC, and she co-edited the accompanying publication. Wilkinson’s exhibitions include A People’s Geography: The Spaces of African American Life, Material Girls, Reclaiming My Time, and Recent Acquisitions: Architects’ Archives.