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For information on The Big Read please click here.
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Artist in Residence: Chiquita Mullins Lee
I am inviting you to attend any of these free events, and to share this information with artists, academics, students, friend and family who may be interested in attending:
If you’d like to talk to me more about this experience, or to see if there is time available for a private meeting with your class or group, please contact me at (330) 833-40761 or email Jill Malusky.
Please be sure to take advantage of this unique and free opportunity to meet with this amazing artist in your own backyard! We hope that her experience and knowledge will have an impact on the arts in our area.
Chiquita Mullins Lee Biography
Chiquita Mullins Lee, formerly of Atlanta, Georgia began her career as a public television producer-director in Nashville, Tennessee. She worked in media for over two decades, holding positions in Georgia and Ohio, while pursuing creative writing. In 1995, she won an individual artist fellowship from the Greater Columbus Arts Council in fiction writing. She won individual artist and individual excellence awards from the Ohio Arts Council in fiction (1997) and non-fiction (2007). In 1996, the New Voices Playwriting Workshop in Detroit, Michigan, presented one of her plays. Chiquita was scriptwriter for TechKNOWKids, which aired in Chicago, Illinois, and received an Emmy nomination in 2001. The Contemporary American Theatre Company (CATCO) featured her work in its Shorts Festival 2000 and 2004. She has served as a production dramaturg for several CATCO plays. She is at work on two novels and two memoirs and is currently writing a one-man play about renowned wood-carver Elijah Pierce, entitled Pierce to the Soul.
Chiquita wrote and performs in Faces of Grace, a solo presentation of dramatic monologues based on women from the Bible. She wrote To Hear Ruby Sing, adapted from the biography Black Diva of the 30s: the Ruby Elzy Story, written by David Weaver; the play was presented at Ohio State University, in Corinth and Holly Springs, Mississippi, and as a staged reading at CATCO, with Chiquita performing the role of Ruby Elzy. Chiquita co-wrote and performed in 12, a three-woman show that explores the age of 12 from three unique African American female perspectives; 12 blends the voices and stories of a black woman coming of age in the Midwest, a second woman growing up in the South, and a third who spent her childhood in Trinidad. Chiquita also co-wrote and performs in Myrlie, Betty, and Coretta: The Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement, playing the role of Coretta Scott King.
Chiquita conducts creative writing workshops and residencies for adults, teens and school-aged children. She has conducted residencies for the Thurber House Summer Writing Camp, Bexley Public Schools near Columbus, Beverly Elementary in Toledo, and Ursuline Academy, a Catholic girls’ high school in Cincinnati. She has served on the board of directors of CATCO and the Film Council of Greater Columbus/CHRIS Awards. She is a juror for the Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, an award in fiction-writing sponsored by the Ohioana Library. Chiquita was the 2007 OAC Summer Writer-in-Residence at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts. She was published in the Fall 2007 issue of Fifth Wednesday Journal, a Chicago-based literary magazine and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was also published in the poetry anthology Red Thread Gold Thread. As a consultant for the Ohio Arts Council, she coordinates Ohio’s Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest.
She earned her BA in Drama/Film and Psychology from Vassar College; an MA in Radio/Television Communications Management from Ohio University; and a second MA in Journalism from Ohio State University.
Chiquita is an active member of New Covenant Believers Church where she co-leads the Drama Ministry and contributes to the quarterly Visionary Focus Magazine.
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More than 1,700 people attended the 2010 Island Party.
A Benefit for the Massillon Museum
Handcrafted ceramic soup bowls will be displayed at the Museum the week before the lunch event. Choose your
favorite and make a reservation for lunch; pay on March 16. For a minimum donation (to be announced), enjoy one serving of
soup and bread- keep the bowl! (You may find a treasure that compels you to offer more!) You're welcome to purchase
additional soup, beverages, and accompaniments.
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The Massillon Museum, with support from the Ohio Arts Council, will be hosting African American poet and playwright Chiquita Mullins Lee as an artist in residence. She will be working with local schools and the public at several arts events.
Chiquita has worked with communities across the country on a variety of programs involving African American history, women’s history, plays and poetry. She is the coordinator of the Poetry Out Loud! National Recitation Contest for the state of Ohio.
