Full Name
Robyne Robinson
Job Title
Principal Consultant
Company
fiveXfive Public Art
Speaker Bio
Robyne Robinson is the Principal Consultant for fiveXfive Public Art – a firm that brands strong business identity with the community through the arts. She has been written about in MN Architecture and Artful Living Magazines and featured in Public Art Review for her work in art and spatial design.
The former Director of Arts @ MSP, Robyne developed arts and culture programming at MSP International Airport, generating more than $5 million dollars for the Minnesota arts community through commissions, exhibitions, and programming at the Twin Cities airport. Her work at MSP has received praise from transportation writers and national media, including The New York Times.
Robyne is well-known as an Emmy-winning news broadcaster in the Minneapolis-St. Paul – and as the first African American prime time anchor in Minnesota. It was during that time she also produced and hosted the first nightly arts and entertainment segment in a major newscast – The Buzz – which resulted in international press, and one of the first interviews and a lengthy relationship with Prince.
Robyne is the creative mind and designer behind ROX Jewelry, sold throughout the US. Her work has been on display at the Lewis Museum of African American Art in Baltimore, the Studio Museum in Harlem, fine art galleries in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and has been featured in both US and UK magazines. ROX was recently selected for acquisition by the Minnesota Historical Society.
Robyne currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and consults on the arts across the US, including significant public art projects in the Twin Cities resulting from George Floyd’s death and subsequent community social justice movement. She also is a frequent contributor to several arts magazines, including Art of the West, Minnesota Monthly, Mpls-St. Paul Magazine and Artful Living.
Robyne’s received numerous honors, including being selected as a 2010 candidate for Lt. Governor, a Hubert Humphrey fellow at the University of Minnesota, and the critically praised curator and owner of flatland gallery (2000-2003), featured in Art News Magazine and helped support the early careers of LA illustrator Kii Arens and ceramic artist and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California-Berkeley Edith Garcia.
She rounds out her list of awards with her 2018 induction into Minnesota’s Broadcasting Hall of Fame – again another milestone as the organization’s first African American honoree.
The former Director of Arts @ MSP, Robyne developed arts and culture programming at MSP International Airport, generating more than $5 million dollars for the Minnesota arts community through commissions, exhibitions, and programming at the Twin Cities airport. Her work at MSP has received praise from transportation writers and national media, including The New York Times.
Robyne is well-known as an Emmy-winning news broadcaster in the Minneapolis-St. Paul – and as the first African American prime time anchor in Minnesota. It was during that time she also produced and hosted the first nightly arts and entertainment segment in a major newscast – The Buzz – which resulted in international press, and one of the first interviews and a lengthy relationship with Prince.
Robyne is the creative mind and designer behind ROX Jewelry, sold throughout the US. Her work has been on display at the Lewis Museum of African American Art in Baltimore, the Studio Museum in Harlem, fine art galleries in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and has been featured in both US and UK magazines. ROX was recently selected for acquisition by the Minnesota Historical Society.
Robyne currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and consults on the arts across the US, including significant public art projects in the Twin Cities resulting from George Floyd’s death and subsequent community social justice movement. She also is a frequent contributor to several arts magazines, including Art of the West, Minnesota Monthly, Mpls-St. Paul Magazine and Artful Living.
Robyne’s received numerous honors, including being selected as a 2010 candidate for Lt. Governor, a Hubert Humphrey fellow at the University of Minnesota, and the critically praised curator and owner of flatland gallery (2000-2003), featured in Art News Magazine and helped support the early careers of LA illustrator Kii Arens and ceramic artist and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California-Berkeley Edith Garcia.
She rounds out her list of awards with her 2018 induction into Minnesota’s Broadcasting Hall of Fame – again another milestone as the organization’s first African American honoree.
