Repost from @socratespark Meet 2026 Artist Fellow Andrew Cornell Robinson (@acrstudio ) ✨
Born in Camden, NJ, Andrew Cornell Robinson found his artistic lifeline through an apprenticeship in an Anglo-Japanese ceramics studio — learning to build kilns and the discipline of making something each day with his hands. For Robinson, craft is a radical gesture: a means of engaging the city’s intersectional communities. He utilizes the weight and permanence of fired clay to anchor diverse voices in our public landscape. A member of the faculty at Parsons School of Design.
For the Fellowship Anniversary, Andrew presents Bellwether — a steel armature supporting visceral ceramic bells, inspired by Pete Seeger’s “Hammer Song.” Working with local communities and public school students, the project uses maiolica glazes — a tradition dating back 2,000 years — inviting New Yorkers to apply their own marks to the white base glaze, making the work together.
On view Fall 2026 at Socrates Sculpture Park.
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Big News
I’m honored to share that I’ve been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists @nyscouncilonthearts grant for my ongoing project, Confabulations and Fantabulosas: A Queer Archive. With the support of NYSCA and the sponsorship of New York Artists Equity @equitygallery , this grant helps move the project from a hopeful idea into an expanded, community-driven reality.
This work grows out of years of listening, gathering, and paying attention to the stories—documented, half-remembered, invented, or lovingly embellished—that weave through queer life. Confabulations and Fantabulosas is my way of building an archive that doesn’t behave like an archive: it’s porous, communal, and alive, shaped as much by the people who show up as by the histories we inherit.
I’m grateful for NYSCA’s recognition and for the continued investment the State of New York makes in artists and cultural workers. Support like this keeps projects rooted in community imagination possible.
