Michelle Robinson

Save the date! New work coming soon to @launch_la , part of a three woman show with the theme of Resilience✨ Currently in the mad dash to finish all the things. Second image: WIP… countless tiny French knots, countless more to go 🪡🪡🪡. Third image: Framing assembly line…grateful to my spouse for the help in finishing ❤️ #natureabides #michellerobinsonstudio #contemporaryembroidery #fiberart #textileart

I’m participating in Keystone Art Space OPEN STUDIOS this Saturday May 9, 2025 4pm - 9pm. Drop by and say hi! ✨ Keystone Art Space Open Studios is a unique experience for art lovers and collectors of all levels to engage and connect with emerging and established artists in Los Angeles. Keystone artists welcome visitors into their workspaces to get a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process and purchase works directly from the artist. Always vibrant and fun, guests are encouraged to wander the halls, personally interact with artists in their studios, mingle with other art enthusiasts, and enjoy the works skillfully produced every day at this fine arts complex. Keystone Art Space has over 50 artist studios featuring painting, illustration, printmaking, jewelry, photography, sculpture and more. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the studios and connect with our talented artists. Keystone Art Space is located at 338 South Avenue 16 Los Angeles, CA 90031 For more information go to keystoneartspace.com

One week left to apply to the Monte Vista Open Call. The application is on our website and linked in bio! #montevistaprojects #opencall

Delighted to be showing a piece at Interlace: Textile Connections in Los Angeles, opening this Saturday, May 2, 4-7pm at 2413 Hyperion (practically in my backyard!) Stop by for snacks and some very wonderful work ✨ Second image: “Skin”, 2024, cotton and silk hand embroidery on muslin. Interlace is a group exhibition by Textile Arts LA in partnership with 2413 Hyperion Co-curated by Caitlin Parker and Liz Robb Interlace brings together a dynamic group of Los Angeles textile artists whose practices explore connection—between hand and material, body and memory, individual and collective. Through weaving, knotting, stitching, and sculptural form, each work contributes to a larger network of touch, labor, and exchange. Opening Reception Saturday, May 2, 2026 • 4–7 PM On View May 2 – May 30, 2026 Featuring Artists: Casey Baden Alexandra Becket Jenna Bonistalli Anne Bray Sarajo Frieden Molly Haynes Brittany Kiertzner (Arisawe) April Oh Kelsey Overstreet Liz Robb Sara Roberts Michelle Robinson Natalia Sanchez Jennifer Starzyk Meredith Strauss Cameron Taylor Brown Elise Vazelakis Ann Weber Debra Weiss Julia Windom @textileartsla @2413hyperion @liz_robb @caitlin_a_parker #InterlaceExhibitionLA #InterlaceLA #TextileArt #contemporaryembroidery #michellerobinsonstudio

Working on another recovery story. San Clemente Island lotus and Bell’s sparrow have been recommended for de-listing because of intensive efforts to restore their habitat. ✨ Coming to @launch_la at the end of May. Ink and embroidery on muslin . #speciesrecovery #sanclementeisland #michellerobinsonstudio #contemporaryembroidery

Embroidery with a view, Olympics edition! Working like mad on a California red-legged frog, a bright spot of good news in species restoration. New show coming up in May! . Cotton embroidery on muslin . #reasonstobehopeful #conservation #contemporaryembroidery #michellerobinsonstudio

Delighted to be showing two works at the Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts in Palm Desert. Many thanks to @carrieburckle and @textileartsla for the curation ✨ “Grave” Silk and cotton embroidery, ink on muslin, 18x24, 2025 “Willow Weep For Me” Bamboo embroidery on organdy, 16x24, 2025 @marksartcenter Marks Art Center Proudly Presents Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch Exhibition Dates: February 10, 2026 – March 19, 2026 Tuesday - Friday 11am to 4pm Reception: Thursday, February 19, 2026, 4:00-7:00pm A Textile Arts LA exhibition in collaboration Craft in America’s Handwork 2026 The Material Intelligence of Touch, is an exhibition that honors the human hand as both a tool and a form of thought. Featuring work by Los Angeles fiber artists and makers from Textile Arts LA, the exhibition is presented in collaboration with Craft in America’s Handwork 2026 initiative. Inspired by artist Ann Hamilton’s idea that “My first hand is a sewing hand,” the exhibition explores how textile practices—weaving, basketry, stitching, felting, and surface design processes—reveal a deep intelligence of touch. Each artist reflects on the relationship between body, material, and method, uncovering the ways handwork sustains knowledge, memory, and presence. “The hand is our first language. Every gesture in textile work—pulling thread, weaving cloth, tying knots—holds a kind of thinking. Inspired by Ann Hamilton’s idea of the ‘sewing hand,’ this exhibition invites us to see how making by hand is an act of attention and connection. The artists of Textile Arts LA remind us that the handmade is not a relic of the past but a living dialogue between body, material, and community.” — [Carrie Burckle], Curator, Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch Handwork: The Material Intelligence of Touch invites audiences to rediscover the quiet radicalism of the handmade—where gesture becomes language, and touch becomes knowing.

Working on an ink underpainting for a new embroidery. I like what happens to the ink on the raw muslin. It’ll likely be mostly covered, but this is a moment in the process I enjoy. ✨ . #underpainting #indiaink #michellerobinsonstudio #wip #workinprogress

Sneak peek at work in progress on an artist book project that @artifactorystudio and I have been collaborating on. It’s part of @callandresponseart and will be exhibited at @startupartfair in February ✨ “in the Woods” Debra Disman and Michelle Robinson Book board, mulberry paper, acrylic paint, bookbinding cloth, archival adhesive, hemp cord, watercolor paper, book repair tape, book hinging tape, archival pigment prints on Moab Entrada rag paper Photos taken by Debra at her studio @18thstreetarts . #michellerobinsonstudio #artifactorystudio #bookart #inthewoods #callandresponse

Embroidery with a view, @willowpondslo edition. Working on a new project focusing on small stories of resilience. 🌱 I attended @kipaipaiworkshops last weekend, which was an energizing, validating, and enlightening experience. Many wonderful conversations were had. The trip came with a bonus visit with @vickyhoffmanart , (last slide) ✨

Life Interlude: UPDATE I’m now such a frequent flyer at the North Hollywood Imaging Center that I have a favorite locker. After a dozen more pictures and thorough bilateral ultrasound, the conclusion is BI-RADS category 3, “probably benign” For those keeping score, the four areas of concern turned out to be two cysts, some calcifications that appear similar to previous scans, and ‘architectural distortion’ likely related to surgery. This is all ostensibly good news, but I am only partially reassured. Having actually had cancer really ups the ante (and the anxiety) for what would have seemed more routine in the past. I’ve had cysts for decades but never had them show up on a mammogram so that’s interesting. The calcifications that were part of my DCIS had also been there on previous scans so of all the findings that’s the one I am personally wary of. In the end it was decided I will go back in 6 months for another diagnostic series, and an MRI. I’m rolling with it. . #breastcancersucks

Life interlude. A little over a year after a routine mammogram showed something suspicious that turned out to be cancer, I found myself back in a familiar waiting room, having my first post-treatment routine screening. Unfortunately, they found 4 new things to be concerned about; one is likely scar tissue but probably not all four. So here I go again…back on the diagnostic merry-go-round…more in depth screening this Monday and we’ll see what happens next. Image 3 - IYKYK - these damn sticker things on sensitive scars are awful. . (Also…wasn’t expecting the junkyard of little metal bits in there; I assume it is intentional post-lumpectomy mapping stuff but it was a surprise) . #breastcancersucks #herewegoagain