by Robin Brooks | May 18, 2022 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning
A child’s paper bag puppet-in-process, Pittston School Artist Residency with Robin Brooks, May 2022 Puppets and Stories is an artist residency I designed for the elementary school children in Pittston, Maine. This past winter, art teacher Karol Carlsen reached...
by Robin Brooks | Apr 27, 2022 | News and Events, Stories of Our Foremothers, Uncategorized
Georgia O’Keeffe, photo courtesy of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico From Santa Fe to Abiquiu to Ghost Ranch On Sunday, April 17, I headed out from Albuquerque toward Santa Fe. I met up with my friend Susan who I’ve known since...
by Robin Brooks | Jul 21, 2018 | News and Events, Tai Chi with Robin, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
Tai Chi and Qigong have been instrumental in guiding me as I find my path–my way forward at this stage of life. I have been making art and working as an art educator since 1979 when I completed my BFA in art education at Boston University. I have always loved to...
by Robin Brooks | Jun 10, 2018 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning
What does it mean to be a woman and an artist? How did being a woman affect my experiences as an art student in some of the most prestigious art schools in the country? Now that “Me Too” has exploded across the media, powerful women are talking about the...
by Robin Brooks | Apr 21, 2018 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning
Stopping by the art room one morning on her way to kindergarten, Harper Marie, age six and a half, exclaimed out loud, “I wonder if you have imagination everywhere?” Harper and her sister Willow were absorbed with seeing what was on the walls and noticing...
