MEET BRITTINI.

Eye N Eye exists because our stories deserve care.

Brittini built the studio from the understanding that a story is not just something we tell for entertainment. Story is how we keep memory intact. Story is how we pass down what kept us alive. Story is how we teach the next ones what we learned the hard way.

Guided by The Storyholding Framework™ — her original methodology for transforming storytelling into a practice of care, reflection, and design — Brittini approaches every project as both archive and activation. Through this framework, she examines how stories live in the body, community, and system — and how they can be held responsibly to support healing, connection, and cultural continuity.

Her work lives where art, organizing, and ceremony overlap. She designs exhibitions that feel like ritual. She hosts panels and public conversations that feel like honest conversations at a kitchen table. She performs poems like a prayer. She brings drum and movement into spaces that were never designed for Black breath and insists that those spaces hold it with respect.

In her work with Ideas42, Brittini helped design a narrative intervention for service providers in Detroit — translating qualitative and quantitative data into curriculum and storytelling-based tools that strengthened care-centered practices across the social sector. That same skill of bridging data, narrative, and lived experience continues to inform the way she builds programs and cultural interventions through Eye N Eye. The Storyholding Framework™ grounds that synthesis, allowing her to move fluidly between analysis and artistry, systems and spirit.

Brittini has produced and curated community-rooted experiences such as Many Tongues™, a multimedia storytelling exhibition with activations in food, comedy, oral history, and ritual space. She is creating Baba Juke™, a multi-city music and oral history project honoring musical fathers and daughters. She directs the Detroit Poetry Archive™ in partnership with Black Bottom Archives, documenting the lineage and impact of Detroit poets across generations. Her libretto, The Seer, commissioned for the Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center, explores Black dignity and Black futures.

Her work has been featured in and invited to spaces including The Kennedy Center, FOX 2 News, WDET 101.9, American Black Journal, Sphinx Connect, Motown Museum, Irwin House Art Gallery, Detroit Institute of Arts, Sidewalk Detroit, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Spirit of Detroit Plaza, and Black Bottom Archives, among others. She has shared stages and tables with cultural workers across Detroit, Flint, Texas, Arizona, California, and across borders and international waters.

Academically, Brittini holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Communications and Graphic Design from the University of Michigan–Flint and a Master of Social Justice and Community Organizing from Prescott College in Arizona. That dual lineage of media design and movement work is why Eye N Eye speaks fluently in both poetry and logistics — beauty, operations, ritual, and rollout.

The thread that runs through all of it is that Brittini treats storytelling as both a responsibility and an invitation. Through The Storyholding Framework™, she continues to develop ways to hold stories that transform memory into method, method into movement, and movement into legacy. Her goal is to create spaces where people can tell the truth without apology — and feel loved while doing so.

Storytelling and Narrative Strategy • Creative Direction and Cultural Production • Curatorial Design and Exhibition Development • Community Organizing and Partnership Building • Workshop Facilitation and Curriculum Design • Behavioral and Narrative Research • Visual Art and Multimedia Design • Public Speaking and Performance • Creative Writing and Poetic Composition • Event Planning and Program Administration • Archival Development and Documentation • Cross-Sector Collaboration and Social Impact Strategy

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