Historically Black College Cum Laude Graduate, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC.
AWARDS
● Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Official Scroll of Recognition - County of Los Angeles 2019
● Houston International Black Film Festival-2019 Won Best Feature-Length Documentary
● Montreal International Black Film Festival, Won Best Feature-Length Documentary
● Gary International Black Film Festival, Won Best Feature-Length Documentary
The Color of Medicine: The Story of Homer G. Phillips Hospital -2018 -
Released Worldwide May 2019
●Washington University School of Medicine, Merit Award 2018
● FLAVA FRESH- Best In Show 2015
Art Residency- The Harrison Art Center 2022
https://www.harrisoncenter.org/artists/rebecca-robinson
Artist Directory- Arts Council of Indianapolis
https://www.indyartsguide.org/artist/rebecca-robinson/
Featured Artist
Indianapolis Arts Council High Art/Billboard Project 2019-2020
The National Endowment Of The Arts/State of Indiana -2015
Washington University School of Medicine- Portrait of Atty. Homer G. Phillips
Committees
The Art Center of Indianapolis- Board of Directors
Indianapolis Caberet- Board of Directors
African American History Committee Advisory Board Member- Indianapolis Public Library
Kurt Vonnegut Museum, Indianapolis, IN Board Member
The Indianapolis Black Documentary Film Festival Advisory Committee
Teaching Artist/Facilitator
Indianapolis Central Library (Meet The Artists 2024)
Art Center of Indianapolis "ArtReach"
IUPUI- Africana Studies Program
Pike High School (Career Day)
Avondale Meadows (Career Day)
Commissioned Work
Roberts Settlement- 100th Anniversary- 2023
NFL/Colts- My Cause My Cleats- 2022- (Smile Project)
NFL/Colts- My Cause My Cleats- 2021 (Black Lives Matter, Redress Project, Mission Transformation, STEM)
Oscar Charleson Soccer Field Mural- Commissioned by former major league soccer player Ray Gaddis -August 2021
10East Arts- Fence Art- September 2021
Clay Terrace/Carmel IN- Shopping ZEN Mural August 2021
IU HEALTH TV Commercial- Encouraging Indiana Covid Vaccinations, May 2021
Union Station Indianapolis- Black Lives Matter Mural (In Honor of George Floyd) 2020
Art & Seek- Community-Wide Partnership with the Arts Council of Indpls and
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful- 2020
"It's My City" Keep Indianapolis Beautiful -2017
Berkely Annual Art Festival-2018
Portrait of Former Supreme Court Judge Frank Sullivan- Indianapolis 2014
EXHIBITIONS
●BUTTER ART FAIR- All-Star Weekend February 2024
●The Harrison Center All-Star Weekend 2024
●North Central High School- Feb 2024
●HIP HOP ANTHOLOGY vol #4- Indianapolis, Central Library June 2023
●Madam Walker Theatre- The Women of Eighteen- Spring 2023
●P30 Indy -2022-2023
●Honeywell Gallery- Wabash IN- Featuring The Eighteen- Spring 2023
●Saks Fifth Avenue Art Gallery Indianapolis- Featuring The EIGHTEEN-2023
●NEWFIELDS/INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART- WE. THE CULTURE FEATURING THE EIGHTEEN- 2022-2023
● Martin University Live Auction- Spring 2023
●PENROD 55th Annual Art Fair NEWFIELDS/INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART- 2022
●924 GALLERY- The Arts Council of Indianapolis- Color Theory 111 Exhibition
●HERRON SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN "Past Is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery"
●Teach For America/Indianapolis- Company Wall Mural- May 2022
●HIP HOP ANTHOLOGY vol #3- Indianapolis, Central Library June 2022
●Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library- Jazz Tribute- April 2022
●Meet The Artists XXXIV- Indianapolis Central Library- Featuring THE EIGHTEEN
●Saks Fifth Avenue Gallery- Featuring The Eighteen- 2022
●Storefront Theatre- "Getting Something Down- 3 Women Show"- 2021-2022
●Cafe Patachou Indianapolis/ N.Pennsylvania Ave.- 2021-2022
●WOMEN OF COLOR- Indianapolis Central Library- 2021
●Art Museum of Lafayette/ Indiana- Solo Show "Love Story"- 202-2022
●BUTTER ART FAIR - Labor Day Weekend 2021
●365+ Featuring The EIGHTEEN- Indianapolis Arts Center August 2021- October 2021
●FLAVA FRESH- 2021-2022
●INDIANAPOLIS CHILDRENS MUSEUM- The Power of Protest- August 2021-2023
●INDIANAPOLIS CENTRAL LIBRARY- Black Photography Exhibit July 2021
●924 Gallery-Arts Council of Indianapolis: Art & Activism Exhibition. June 2021
●GARFIELD PARK ARTS CENTER- POWER: HOOSIER WOMEN IN ART, Indianapolis, IN May 2021
●INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA "VISUAL HARMONY" Curated by Artist Gary Gee
●FISHERS ARTS COUNCIL- Art Gallery at City Hall, Featured Artist-Black History Month 2021
●THE HARRISON CENTER- Solo Exhibition/City Gallery -January 2021
●THE HARRISON CENTER- WE ARE INDY ARTS Group Exhibition December 2020, February 2021
●HERRON SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Feb 2021
●RECLAIMING THE SPACE MURAL- October 2020- Indianapolis City Market
●THE INDIANAPOLIS ARTS CENTER, Featuring the EIGHTEEN: BLM/IN. AVENUE-- October 2020
●WOMEN OF WE ARE INDY ARTS- Indianapolis Public Library-Sept 2020
●BLACK LIVES MATTER STREET MURAL/INDIANA AVE.- Indy 10 Black Lives Matter August 2020
●BLACK LIVES MATTER MURAL/UNION STATION- Arts Council of Indianapolis, IN 2020
●INDIANAPOLIS/BRIGHTWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY- Featured Artist- June 2020-October 2020
●XPRESSIONS EXHIBIT curated by INSIGHT- Indiana Landmarks, Indianapolis, IN March 2020
●Chicago Museum of Science and History/Black Creativity Exhibit 2020
●The Harrison Center, Window Walk Tour, Indianapolis, IN December 2019
●NO HATE SHOW, The Center for Contemporary & Political Art Washington, DC. 2019
●TINY VIII EXHIBITION, 924 Gallery, Indianapolis, IN 2019
●WE ARE INDY ARTS, INDIANA LANDMARKS “Non-Rectangle” Exhibition 2019
●FLAVA FRESH 2019-2020, Sullivan Munce Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
●Meet The Artists 31st Annual, February 2019
● Frequencies Exhibition, Fountain Square First Friday 2019
●GODDESS EXHIBIT, INDIANA LANDMARKS, July 2018
●THE DISTRICT THEATRE, Tribute To Women In Arts, 2018
●WE ARE INDY ARTS, INDIANA LANDMARKS, SANKOFA exhibit, August 2018
●FLAVA FRESH, Tube Factory, Garfield Park 2018
●IU Union Street Gallery, "Social Thoughts Exhibition", November 2017
● Indianapolis Arts Council, "It's My City" Chalk Project, September 2017
●FLAVA FRESH 2017, Ivy Tech, Indiana Landmarks, Clowes Hall, 2017
●Chicago Museum of Science & Industry, Annual Art Exhibition Jan-Feb 2017
● Indiana Landmarks RAPP FAMILY GALLERY, June 2017
● The Athenaeum, “Red, White & Blue”, Indianapolis, IN July 2017
● FLAVA FRESH, Indpls. Indianapolis Arts Garden, Primary Colours Gallery, Public Library Voted “Best In Show” 2016
● Primary Colours Art Exhibit, Fountain Square, Indianapolis, June 2016
● Domestic Violence Network, “There’s Hope” Art Exhibit, Butler University/Clowes Hall Indianapolis, May 2016
● Melting Pot of Africa, Brebeuf Jesuit Prep. School, Indianapolis, March 17, 2016
● Sunday Night Soiree @ the Red Room, Indianapolis, IN, Feb 2016
● The Athenaeum “Neo 5”, Indianapolis, IN Feb 2016
● Meet The Artists XXVIII 7 Elements of Art, Indianapolis, IN Feb 2016
● Clowes Hall, Indianapolis IN, Jan 2015
● IDADA-Raymond James/Stutz Building, Indianapolis, IN 2015
● Meridian Street Gallery, Indianapolis IN, Oct, Nov, Dec, 2015
● Oasis Gallery, Indianapolis, IN 2015
● Madam Walker Theatre-The Whiteboard Project: America’s Diary-Indpls, IN May 2015
● Meet The Artists 27th Annual Exhibition, Indianapolis Central Library, Feb 2015
●The LENS project "Under the Helmet", Indianapolis, IN 2015
● RAW natural born artist exhibit, Indianapolis, In, Feb 2013
Articles/Media
●Herd Strategies- Featured Artist
●Harrison Center Indianapolis, January 2021"A Stroll Through Indy" exhibition
●PBS American Portrait- November 2020
● Indianapolis Business Journal Podcast- October 2020
● Indianapolis Monthly Magazine- To be published in October 2020
● PATTERN Magazine July 2020
● FOX 59, Black Lives Matter Mural Project/Artist Spotlight June 2020
● WFYI- June 2020
● Indianapolis Star- June 2020
● Indianapolis Monthly Magazine October 2017
● Wish TV, Indy Style-Artist Spotlight June 2017
● Indianapolis Recorder, June 2017
● Voyage ATL, Online Magazine, October 2016
● RadioNext, Smooth Groove Radio-Interview with Harold HB Bell. March 2016
● Interview with Indiana Black Chamber of Commerce, Feb 2016
● Featured Artist for National Endowment for the Arts, 2015
● Pattern Fashion Magazine, Indpls, IN to be published in Feb 2013
● Atlanta Fashion Examiner, Atlanta, GA to be published in Feb 2013
● Points North Magazine, Atlanta, GA. August 2008
● North Carolina Central University Renaissance Periodical, Spring 2006
● Rolling Out News, Atlanta, Ga. February 2005
● Jezebel Magazine, Atlanta, Ga. October 2004
Past Exhibitions 2003-2011
● Purse Strings, Giving Back, Atlanta, GA 2011
● Spelman College Golden Girls 50 th Class Reunion, 2011
● Purse Strings, Charleston, SC, 2011
● South Of the Equator “A taste for volunteering” Atlanta, GA 2007
● Open Your Purse, Atlanta, GA, 2007
● Push Push Theater, “The Art of Style”, Atlanta, Ga. Nov 2006
● Mocha Match Café, “Art and Designs Bazaar”, Atlanta, Ga. Oct 2006
● U-Space Gallery, “The art of something different”, Atlanta, Ga Sept. 2006
● Neo-Renaissance art gallery, Atlanta, Ga. July 2006
● SEVEN Boutique, Atlanta, Ga.
● N’side Out/Avenue For Artistry Fashion Show, Atlanta, Ga. 2006
● A Taste of Volunteering “Sabor”, Hands On Atlanta Auction, June 2006
● March of Dimes, “Alex the Great” Indianapolis, In, June 2006
● U-Space Gallery, Atlanta Ga. Miniature Show, Spring 2006
● Javaology, Atlanta, Ga. Art/Fashion Exhibit, November 2005
● Atlanta Jazz Festival, Atlanta, Ga. July 2005
● Mustard seed Organization, June 2005
● Ummah Endowment Fund “Fight against Aids”, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2003
● Kevin Malloy Gallery, Wilmington, DE. October 2003
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