The disrespect continued into 2020 while Robinson was working on an art exhibit in response to the Minnesota riots.
“One of the curators of this art collection told me that Black artists were technically not as good as White artists — that we lacked literacy skills — that we come from single-parent homes,” she discloses, “and that somehow influences our ability to be great artists.”
Understandably upset, Robinson didn’t articulate her annoyance in the moment. Instead, she devised a plan to curate “A Black Artist In a White World,” then promptly told the Germany exhibit owner that his rep inspired her brilliance.
“That’s where this exhibit came from — my anger — that he had the nerve to say that to me,” she explains, “as if I was some Uncle Tom, by virtue of me going to law school and being educated, that somehow I was going to jump on the bandwagon while he was saying these things to me.
“I told them, this is why I did it. You should never say that a Black artist [is] not technically as good as White artists. Historically, our ideas have been used and … then we’re not given the credit. It happens all the time.”
With Robinson’s help, that trend will hopefully cease to exist.
Catch the virtual exhibit here: https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/node/6419359
