Marrin Robinson

EDUCATION
Washington University, St. Louis, MO,M.F.A. 1987
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME,1986
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, B.A.1983
Major: Visual Studies, High Distinction
Foreign Study:
Archaeology with extensive travel (1 yr.) Greece 1983
Art History, based in Florence, (Spring) Italy 1981
Painting, Leo Marchutz School, Aix-en-Provence, France 1980

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Principia College, Elsah, IL 2007-present
Smith College, Northampton, MA, 2006-07
American University in Cairo, Egypt, 1999-2006
Principia College, Elsah, IL (spring term) 1999
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 1997-98
Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT 1991-97
Triton College, Chicago, IL1991
Art Resources in Teaching, Chicago, IL 1990-91
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 1989-90
Knox College, Galesburg, IL 1987-89

COURSES TAUGHT
Foundations of Design and Color
Drawing I and Drawing II
Painting I and Painting II
What is Art?
Modern Art History
Painting and Sculpture in the U.S.
Topics in Studio Art: Project Grafton
Experimental and Mixed Media
Senior Seminar

ARTIST RESIDENCIES
The American College of Greece, Athens, Artist in Residence (fall semester) 2005
The Colorado College, Artist-in-Residence, (3 months) Fall 1998
The American College of Greece, Visiting Artist, September 1997
The Ragdale Foundation, Fellowship, May & November 1990
Fulbright Research Grant, one year painting in Portugal 1984-85

AWARDS/REVIEWS
Alternate for Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women 2004
Blending In, Marrin Robinson takes an Artistic Journey Through Egypt
Cairo Times, Volume 7 Issue 48, 19-25 February 2004
Faculty Research Grants, The American University in Cairo 2001 & 2003
Marlboro Faculty Research Grant 1995
N.E.H.“Faculty Study on Asia” grant, (six participants), Marlboro College1995
Marrin Robinson: Excerpts from a Landscape, Art New England, Dec. 1994/Jan.1995
Scholarship to attend The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1986
Scholarship from Washington University to attend La Napoule Art Program 1986
Two year Fellowship that paid full tuition for M.F.A. study at Washington U.1985- 1987
Travel awards to attend Fulbright conferences in Brussels and Berlin, 1985
Xerox Corporation Grant, painting on Crete, (winter) 1983

EXHIBITS
Desert Capital: Color and Light, solo exhibit, Smith College, Northhampton, MA, 2007
The Art of Portraiture, What is a Portrait? Falaki Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2006
Cairo Stories, solo exhibit, The Putney School, Putney VT 2005
Candles on the Nile, solo exhibit, The American Center, Alexandria, Egypt 2004
Light Across Borders, solo exhibit, The American College of Greece, Athens 2004
Light Across Borders, solo exhibit, The American University in Cairo, Egypt 2004
Out of the Desert, two painters, Atelier du Caire, Cairo, Egypt 2003
Faculty Exhibit, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, 2000, 2001, 2002 2003
Artists Cross the World, Galerie Toot, Cairo, Egypt 2002
Art on Campus, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT 2002
Artists as Travelers, four painters, Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Manchester, VT 2002
Vermont Artists as Travelers, four painters, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT 2001
June Solo Exhibit, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2000
Selections from the Flat File, Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, CT 2000
December Show, three painters, Caelum Gallery, Chelsea, NYC 1999
25 Years of Successful Women, Washington University, MO 1999
Paintings & Collages, solo exhibit, Coburn Gallery, The Colorado College, CO 1998
Landscape and Inscape, 3 painters, Coburn Gallery, The Colorado College, CO 1998
Current Work, 3 artists, 541 Broadway B-5, Soho, NYC 1998
Pieces from Greece, solo exhibit, The Library of the American College of Greece 1997
Arts Mini-Festival, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1997
Travels, Near and Far, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA 1997
Inscapes, solo exhibit, No. B.I.A.S. Gallery, Bennington, VT 1995
Echoes of Color, Installation, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center VT 1995
Small Works Invitational, Blue Mountain Gallery, Soho, NY 1995
Excerpts from a Landscape, solo exhibit, Marlboro College, VT 1994
Two Painters, Leland Gallery, Springfield, VT 1993
Group Show, Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, VT 1992
New Paintings, solo exhibit, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1991
New Paintings, solo exhibit, Tyler Gallery, Marlboro College, VT 1991
Installation, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 1990
Installation in Raw Space, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989
Installation, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 1989
Installation, Galesburg Civic Art Center, IL 1989
Galex 23, Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL, Juried by William Struve 1989
Installation, Knox College, Galesburg, IL 1988
Graduate Thesis Show, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 1987
An Octopus’ Garden, Installation, Washington U., St. Louis, MO 1987
Fulbright Show, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 1987
Installation, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1987
Fulbright Show, Smithsonian Castle Building, Washington, DC 1986
Contemporary Women Artists of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 1985
Paintings, solo exhibit, The American Library, Lisbon, Portugal 1985

Placement of Students in Graduate Programs
Over the years my students have been accepted to graduate programs at Yale University, Boston University, Brandeis University, Pratt Art Institute, California College of Art and Design, San Francisco College of Art, Slade School of Art, Goldsmiths of University of London, Kent Institute of Art & Design in England and The Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Moderator for Olin conference "Crossing Cultures", Washington U. St. Louis 2007
Publication of my painting, Al Azhar Park, cover of the Marlboro Review, 2006
Publication of my painting, Desert Prayer, in Euclid in the Rainforest, by Joe Mazur,
     PI Press 2004
Voice in Breathing Water by Ashraf Fouad exhibited in D.C., The World Bank Art Program      2003
Reviewer for Fulbright Grants, Cairo, Egypt, 2000, 2003
Lecture on the relationship of poetry to my painting, Cairo University, Egypt, 2000
Panelist for alumnae session “The Arts”, Dartmouth College, Oct. 1997
Member of Awards Panel for “Art on the Mountain”, Wilmington, VT 1992, 1997
Illustrations for Quiet Water Canoe Guides Maine 1995 and New York 1996
Moderator for “Enlarging the Picture: Women in the Arts”, Olin Conference,
     Washington U. 1995
Outside Examiner for Honors Thesis, Knox College, IL 1993
Visiting Artist, Dartmouth College 1989, 1993
Member of Jury Panel for Arts Midwest 1988
Illustrations and drawings, in Jastrow, Robert. The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe      1981 New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 59, 102-103, 124-125.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
The American College of Greece (April and Fall Semester 2005)
I was invited to the college in April 2005 to consult with the college on their new Art building. I returned as Artist in Residence for fall semester 2005 and discussed with them various options for starting a studio art program at the college.

Art Unit Head at The American University in Cairo (2001-2005)
As one of two full time faculty in the Art Unit of the Department of Performing and Visual Arts, I was head of the Art Unit from 2001-2005. During that time we started the Art Major and moved to the new Falaki campus where we doubled our studio space and started the Falaki Gallery. In five years we went from 0-66 Art majors. Responsibilities included the addition of twelve part time faculty and designing new Selected Topics courses every semester. I added sculpture and photography to the course catalogue. In 2005 we were given a new line to hire a full time Art Historian.

University Committees – AUC
Gallery Committee 2003-04
Chair, Art Search Committee 2003
Senate Task Force on Assessment of the Quality of Teaching 2002
Senate Student Affairs Committee 2002
Faculty Senate, The American University in Cairo, 2000-02

Student Highlights - AUC
Graduating Art majors in February 2006 and June 2006 won the Ahmed Zewail Prize for Excellence in the Sciences and the Humanities, awarded for an essay written by an honors student whose academic accomplishments demonstrate extraordinary commitment to the pursuit of scientific inquiry and the affirmation of humanistic values.

Students participated in semester abroad programs studying at The University of Massachusetts (Amherst), The American University in D.C. and the University of Washington.
One of our recent alumna had her painting accepted into the collection of the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art.
Students were accepted to graduate programs in Art in England, Germany and the United States.

Marlboro College 1993-1997
During this time, I was the only full time faculty member in Art at Marlboro College.

“Celebrating Creativity Lecture Series” 1994-1996
To promote creativity across the disciplines, I designed and organized a two year lecture series inviting prominent intellectuals in the area. I also helped procure and directed the $8,000 grant which financed this series and was given to the college by the Vermont Council on the Humanities.

Drury Art Gallery 1994-1996
A two year project involving the deign and execution of the college art gallery. This became necessary when the college replaced the existing art gallery with a computer center. I brought in an internationally known artist as a consultant to the design process.

Baber Art Building 1996
Consulted with the architect hired by the college to design studio space for painting and drawing classes.

“Drawings by Sculptors” 1996
I was curator for the opening show of the Drury gallery, borrowing works from the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.


	Marrin Robinson marrin@marrinrobinson.com EDUCATION Washington University, St. Louis, MO,M.F.A. 1987 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME,1986 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, B.A.1983 Major: Visual Studies, High Distinction Foreign Study: Archaeology with extensive travel (1 yr.) Greece 1983 Art History, based in Florence, (Spring) Italy 1981 Painting, Leo Marchutz School, Aix-en-Provence, France 1980 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Principia College, Elsah, IL 2007-present Smith College, Northampton, MA, 2006-07 American University in Cairo, Egypt, 1999-2006 Principia College, Elsah, IL (spring term) 1999 Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 1997-98 Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT 1991-97 Triton College, Chicago, IL1991 Art Resources in Teaching, Chicago, IL 1990-91 Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 1989-90 Knox College, Galesburg, IL 1987-89 COURSES TAUGHT Foundations of Design and Color Drawing I and Drawing II Painting I and Painting II What is Art? Modern Art History Painting and Sculpture in the U.S. Topics in Studio Art: Project Grafton Experimental and Mixed Media Senior Seminar ARTIST RESIDENCIES The American College of Greece, Athens, Artist in Residence (fall semester) 2005 The Colorado College, Artist-in-Residence, (3 months) Fall 1998 The American College of Greece, Visiting Artist, September 1997 The Ragdale Foundation, Fellowship, May & November 1990 Fulbright Research Grant, one year painting in Portugal 1984-85 AWARDS/REVIEWS Alternate for Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women 2004 Blending In, Marrin Robinson takes an Artistic Journey Through Egypt Cairo Times, Volume 7 Issue 48, 19-25 February 2004 Faculty Research Grants, The American University in Cairo 2001 & 2003 Marlboro Faculty Research Grant 1995 N.E.H.“Faculty Study on Asia” grant, (six participants), Marlboro College1995 Marrin Robinson: Excerpts from a Landscape, Art New England, Dec. 1994/Jan.1995 Scholarship to attend The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1986 Scholarship from Washington University to attend La Napoule Art Program 1986 Two year Fellowship that paid full tuition for M.F.A. study at Washington U.1985- 1987 Travel awards to attend Fulbright conferences in Brussels and Berlin, 1985 Xerox Corporation Grant, painting on Crete, (winter) 1983 EXHIBITS Desert Capital: Color and Light, solo exhibit, Smith College, Northhampton, MA, 2007 The Art of Portraiture, What is a Portrait? Falaki Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2006 Cairo Stories, solo exhibit, The Putney School, Putney VT 2005 Candles on the Nile, solo exhibit, The American Center, Alexandria, Egypt 2004 Light Across Borders, solo exhibit, The American College of Greece, Athens 2004 Light Across Borders, solo exhibit, The American University in Cairo, Egypt 2004 Out of the Desert, two painters, Atelier du Caire, Cairo, Egypt 2003 Faculty Exhibit, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, 2000, 2001, 2002 2003 Artists Cross the World, Galerie Toot, Cairo, Egypt 2002 Art on Campus, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT 2002 Artists as Travelers, four painters, Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Manchester, VT 2002 Vermont Artists as Travelers, four painters, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT 2001 June Solo Exhibit, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT 2000 Selections from the Flat File, Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, CT 2000 December Show, three painters, Caelum Gallery, Chelsea, NYC 1999 25 Years of Successful Women, Washington University, MO 1999 Paintings & Collages, solo exhibit, Coburn Gallery, The Colorado College, CO 1998 Landscape and Inscape, 3 painters, Coburn Gallery, The Colorado College, CO 1998 Current Work, 3 artists, 541 Broadway B-5, Soho, NYC 1998 Pieces from Greece, solo exhibit, The Library of the American College of Greece 1997 Arts Mini-Festival, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1997 Travels, Near and Far, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA 1997 Inscapes, solo exhibit, No. B.I.A.S. Gallery, Bennington, VT 1995 Echoes of Color, Installation, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center VT 1995 Small Works Invitational, Blue Mountain Gallery, Soho, NY 1995 Excerpts from a Landscape, solo exhibit, Marlboro College, VT 1994 Two Painters, Leland Gallery, Springfield, VT 1993 Group Show, Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, VT 1992 New Paintings, solo exhibit, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1991 New Paintings, solo exhibit, Tyler Gallery, Marlboro College, VT 1991 Installation, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 1990 Installation in Raw Space, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989 Installation, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 1989 Installation, Galesburg Civic Art Center, IL 1989 Galex 23, Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL, Juried by William Struve 1989 Installation, Knox College, Galesburg, IL 1988 Graduate Thesis Show, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 1987 An Octopus’ Garden, Installation, Washington U., St. Louis, MO 1987 Fulbright Show, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 1987 Installation, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1987 Fulbright Show, Smithsonian Castle Building, Washington, DC 1986 Contemporary Women Artists of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 1985 Paintings, solo exhibit, The American Library, Lisbon, Portugal 1985 Placement of Students in Graduate Programs Over the years my students have been accepted to graduate programs at Yale University, Boston University, Brandeis University, Pratt Art Institute, California College of Art and Design, San Francisco College of Art, Slade School of Art, Goldsmiths of University of London, Kent Institute of Art & Design in England and The Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE Moderator for Olin conference "Crossing Cultures", Washington U. St. Louis 2007 Publication of my painting, Al Azhar Park, cover of the Marlboro Review, 2006 Publication of my painting, Desert Prayer, in Euclid in the Rainforest, by Joe Mazur, PI Press 2004 Voice in Breathing Water by Ashraf Fouad exhibited in D.C., The World Bank Art Program 2003 Reviewer for Fulbright Grants, Cairo, Egypt, 2000, 2003 Lecture on the relationship of poetry to my painting, Cairo University, Egypt, 2000 Panelist for alumnae session “The Arts”, Dartmouth College, Oct. 1997 Member of Awards Panel for “Art on the Mountain”, Wilmington, VT 1992, 1997 Illustrations for Quiet Water Canoe Guides Maine 1995 and New York 1996 Moderator for “Enlarging the Picture: Women in the Arts”, Olin Conference, Washington U. 1995 Outside Examiner for Honors Thesis, Knox College, IL 1993 Visiting Artist, Dartmouth College 1989, 1993 Member of Jury Panel for Arts Midwest 1988 Illustrations and drawings, in Jastrow, Robert. The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe 1981 New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 59, 102-103, 124-125. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE The American College of Greece (April and Fall Semester 2005) I was invited to the college in April 2005 to consult with the college on their new Art building. I returned as Artist in Residence for fall semester 2005 and discussed with them various options for starting a studio art program at the college. Art Unit Head at The American University in Cairo (2001-2005) As one of two full time faculty in the Art Unit of the Department of Performing and Visual Arts, I was head of the Art Unit from 2001-2005. During that time we started the Art Major and moved to the new Falaki campus where we doubled our studio space and started the Falaki Gallery. In five years we went from 0-66 Art majors. Responsibilities included the addition of twelve part time faculty and designing new Selected Topics courses every semester. I added sculpture and photography to the course catalogue. In 2005 we were given a new line to hire a full time Art Historian. University Committees – AUC Gallery Committee 2003-04 Chair, Art Search Committee 2003 Senate Task Force on Assessment of the Quality of Teaching 2002 Senate Student Affairs Committee 2002 Faculty Senate, The American University in Cairo, 2000-02 Student Highlights - AUC Graduating Art majors in February 2006 and June 2006 won the Ahmed Zewail Prize for Excellence in the Sciences and the Humanities, awarded for an essay written by an honors student whose academic accomplishments demonstrate extraordinary commitment to the pursuit of scientific inquiry and the affirmation of humanistic values. Students participated in semester abroad programs studying at The University of Massachusetts (Amherst), The American University in D.C. and the University of Washington. One of our recent alumna had her painting accepted into the collection of the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art. Students were accepted to graduate programs in Art in England, Germany and the United States. Marlboro College 1993-1997 During this time, I was the only full time faculty member in Art at Marlboro College. “Celebrating Creativity Lecture Series” 1994-1996 To promote creativity across the disciplines, I designed and organized a two year lecture series inviting prominent intellectuals in the area. I also helped procure and directed the $8,000 grant which financed this series and was given to the college by the Vermont Council on the Humanities. Drury Art Gallery 1994-1996 A two year project involving the deign and execution of the college art gallery. This became necessary when the college replaced the existing art gallery with a computer center. I brought in an internationally known artist as a consultant to the design process. Baber Art Building 1996 Consulted with the architect hired by the college to design studio space for painting and drawing classes. “Drawings by Sculptors” 1996 I was curator for the opening show of the Drury gallery, borrowing works from the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.