Dreadlocks, Rock ‘n Roll & Human Rights

Ron Kipling Williams is an award-winning performance artist, poet, and human rights activist.
Ron has performed and lectured in numerous venues throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region performing his brand of art and activism which featured his first two one man shows, If the World Were Like Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids and Aware and Outraged, and has appeared on several radio and television programs.
Ron’s awards include a Maryland Arts Council Individual Artist Award, Baltimore City African American Male Unsung Hero Award, and a United Workers Human Rights Champion award.
Currently, Ron is a graduate student in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Baltimore. He is a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honors Society, Be the Change Advisory Council, and is a Student Fellow with the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics.
For the last six years Ron has volunteered as a voice over recording artist for the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
Ron’s new one man show, Dreadlocks, Rock & Roll and Human Rights, is an autobiographical play about a black youth who rocks and rolls to his own beat and is forced to battle racism, stereotypes and ignorance. It is a thought-provoking tale of a man who struggles against society’s intolerance and fights to create a world of acceptance. It received critical acclaim by the Baltimore Sun and was a hit at the 2014 Charm City Fringe Festival and the 2015 Artscape Festival.