Robin Wilson
Educator, Children’s Author, Entrepreneur, and Multidisciplinary Visual Artist
Robin Michelle Wilson is an educator, children’s author, entrepreneur, and multidisciplinary visual artist working in collage, abstraction, and fiber. Known for crocheted story quilts, her practice explores African American family traditions, historical lineages, and cultural inheritances through memory, research, and storytelling.
Her fiber artwork “Line of Succession” (2025) was featured in McGee: Synthesis #2 at Design Studio 6 (Detroit). A longtime family literacy advocate, Robin founded the Josie Odum Morris Literacy Project, Inc. at age 21 and earned the NAACP Excellence in Leadership Award (Western Wayne County). She is a U.S. Fulbright-Hays GPA Brazil Fellow (2022), served two terms on the Leanna Hicks Public Library Commission in Inkster, and is a graduate of University of Michigan–Dearborn. She is a member of the Great Lakes African American Quilters Network, with work exhibited across Metro Detroit.
Black Women in Art: Restorying the Canon — Conversation with Robin Wi…
This episode, Black Women in Art: Restorying the Canon, was originally recorded for CAA Conversations in alignment with their content structure at the time. When CAA shifted to a panel-only format, they chose not to release individual interviews. I’m proud to share this dialogue independently becau…