Lisa Beth Robinson

Associate Professor
book arts, first year courses
MFA, MLIS University of Wisconsin-Madison
robinsonli@ecu.edu

Lisa Beth Robinson is the proprietor of Somnambulist Tango Press where she makes artists books (letterpress, handmade papermaking, printmaking), broadsides, fine art, installations, curates exhibitions, and is an associate professor at the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. http://lisabethpress.com/

Her ongoing fused glass collaboration with sculptor Kristin Thielking examines ocean health/conservation, wave science, and shipwrecks as a reflection of the human condition. She is interested in interconnectedness and vanishings, particularly regarding the environment. She wants people to see that they have meaning and connection, and that they have agency in the outcomes. Robinson is a member of the Catching a Wave collective, a group of multi- and transdisciplinary researchers from universities based in the USA, UK and Holland, combining expertise in environmental and social sciences with mixed media, fine arts, and poetry. https://www.catchingawave.org/ Additionally, Robinson’s research presents Colony Collapse Disorder as the metaphor for global sociopolitical acts.

Her work has been purchased by institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the New York Public Library, and exhibited at Science Gallery Dublin (Ireland) and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (GA). She has presented at the Glass Art Society conference (FL), the Art in the Anthropocene conference (Dublin, Ireland), and the AGU/TOS Ocean Sciences Meeting (Hawai‘i). She served on the national board of the College Book Art Association. Her degrees are from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands (BA, Honors in Art) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (MFA, MLIS). Recent residencies include In-Cahoots (CA) and the C-Scape Dune Shack in Provincetown (MA) and she is the recipient of a 2023 ECU Trendsetters Award.