Credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University
Alum and author D. Watkins (third from left), who received a master's degree in educational studies and a graduate certificate in urban education from the Johns Hopkins School of Education in 2011, debuts Mask Off, a game he designed to help young men explore their emotions in an effort to deal with the problem of violence in Baltimore City.
Image credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University
The game was developed as part of his residency in creative writing with the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts, an initiative aimed at documenting and disseminating the unique history of African American life and art in Baltimore and to foster intellectual linkages between the university's Homewood campus and the city. The Visiting Artist Residency provides financial support and workspace to an artist in the performing, visual, or media arts toward the development and installation of a Baltimore-inspired art project.
