Education
The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 2026
Ph.D. Candidate in Arts Administration, Education, & Policy (Art Education Specialization)
Dissertation: Manifesting the Village: Black othermothering, arts-based interventions, and curriculum building toward a village learning system
Chair: dr. gloria j. wilson; Committee: Dr. Rachel Skaggs, Dr. Ketal Patel, Dr. Richard Finlay-Fletcher
Georgia State University | Atlanta, GA | 2018
Master of Heritage Preservation (Public History Specialization)
Thesis: African Wisdom - Summer Art Workshop: An integrated museum learning experience
Supervisor: Dr. Kathryn Wilson
University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, NC | 2011
Bachelor of Arts in History & Peace, War, and Defense
Honors Thesis: “Whatever day makes man a slave, takes half his worth away:” An exploration of slavery, manhood in war, and its consequences in the Iliad
Supervisor: Dr. Fred Naiden
Work Experience
The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH
Graduate Teaching Associate, Arts Administration, Education, and Policy Department | 2023-Present
Graduate Research Associate, Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center | 2024-Present
As a Teaching Associate, I serve as the primary instructor for two courses, each with an average of 20 students, covering art methods, media critique, and educational techniques. As a Graduate Research Associate, I co-create and facilitate five programs per semester to encourage wellness and balance in students' lives. I lead a team of 20 student workers in managing the on-site needs of faculty, staff, and student organizations, reserving space in the building.
University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ
Program Coordinator, Associate Vice President’s Office for Equity in the Arts | 2022-2023
Graduate Assistant, Associate Vice President’s Office for Equity in the Arts | 2021-2022
Fostering research/creative practice related to equity, including identifying funding opportunities and campus and community assets. Creating Arizona Arts-wide (3,000+ faculty, staff, and students) communications and reports, conducting website maintenance on office initiatives, and partnering with university departments. Led the creation, facilitation, and management of a division-wide arts equity leadership fellowship.
Graduate Assistant, Center for Digital Humanities | 2021-2022
Writing clear and concise grant proposals for local and national funding, working closely with the Director to assist faculty project investigators. Assisting in pilot project definition and analysis, including advising about project scope, requirements, and specifications, and project design. Evaluating and integrating tools for digital scholarship and support for new applications to support digital scholarship.
Intern; School of Art, Lionel Rombach and Joseph Gross Galleries | 2021
Managed the virtual exhibition space as COVID-19 pushed all in-person shows online. Collaborated with the School of Art programs (students, faculty, staff, children, and parents) to co-curate and showcase the BFA, MFA and WildCat Art Summer School exhibitions on the website.
Arete Planning & Design | Atlanta, GA
Founder; Exhibit and Program Design Consultant | 2017-2021
Developing internal and external programs' design, language, and presentation standards. Collaborating with curators and staff to enhance continuity and storytelling within exhibition design while drafting project budgets and schedules in liaison with departments and stakeholders. Producing and implementing programs and measuring success using key performance indicators.
American Institute of Architects, Georgia Association | Atlanta, GA
Director of Outreach and Communications | 2013-2021
Coordinating special events, including workshops, seminars, a design and honor awards program, and ceremonies. Serving as designer, editor, and content manager for the annual Citizen Architect magazine. Researching, interpreting, and curating a 300-square-foot gallery space to engage the public and raise awareness of the built environment. Archiving and preserving historical records and sensitive documents.
Teaching Experience
The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH
Instructor of Record; Art & Curriculum Concepts for Teachers (ARTEDUC 3900) | Fall 2023, 2024, 2025; Spring 2024, 2025, 2026
A required methods course for preservice education students exploring problems of teaching personal knowledge about art, insight into children's artwork, and understanding of elementary school curriculum. This course is limited to 25 students.
Instructor of Record; Criticizing Television (ARTEDUC 2700) | Summer 2024, 2025
A critical analysis of a wide variety of television programs and technologies through viewing, discussing, reading, and writing. This virtual course is limited to 25 undergraduate education students
University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ
Graduate Teaching Assistant; Special Topics: Rehearsals in Antiracism (FA 495A/595A) | Spring 2023
This course prioritizes unlearning and reflection through arts-based methods to foster new ecologies of well-being in antiracist work. Throughout the course, learners engage in deep introspection and critical examination of the structures and systems perpetuating intersectional racial injustices. The course is limited to 10 undergraduate and graduate students.
Facilitator, Co-Instructor: JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts | 2022-2023
The JustArts Fellowship is an Arizona Arts initiative to advance equity in the arts by asking student leaders to identify challenges and propose creative solutions that increase student access to meaningful arts experiences. The program is limited to 5 awarded scholars.
Graduate Teaching Assistant; Engaging Visual Culture (ART 150B1) | Spring 2022
In this course, students engage with concepts and practices of visual culture (which includes art) as they relate to our daily lives and to our own productive and consumptive practices.
Guest Lecturer on Museum Practice; Foundations of Art & Visual Culture Education | November 2021
Invited visiting lecturer on museum practice. This lecture taught the basics of exhibition and programming in a museum space and a brief history of those practices. The course is limited to 30 undergraduate art education students.
Florida A&M University | Tallahassee, FL
Guest Lecturer; “Radical Possibilities in Liberatory Archival Practice” | September 2022
Facilitated a workshop on architectural archive retrieval methods and ethical resourcing techniques for a class of 25 undergraduate architecture students
Select Exhibition & Design Work
Exhibit Design; Austere Imaginary | kó Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria | 2022
Curatorial Assistant and Exhibit Design; Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community | National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA | 2020
Exhibit Design; Human Rights Gallery (Update) | National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA | 2019-2020
Curatorial Assistant and Exhibit Design; The Other Dream: King and the Poor People’s Campaign | National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA | 2019-2020
Visual Media and Way-Finding Design; Red Summer: The Work of Artist Wendel White | National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA | 2019
Print Design; Breaking Barriers: Sports and Human Rights | National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA | 2019
Curatorial Assistant and Exhibit Design; LGBTQ Institute: Disruption is Democracy | National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA | 2018
Exhibit and Signage Design; Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70th Anniversary | National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA | 2018
Presentations & Publications
Invited Talks
Robinson, K. L. (2025). Manifesting the village: Black othermothering, arts-based interventions, and curriculum building toward educator capability [Conference session]. Art Education Research Institute, College Station, PA. *Award Lecture
Robinson, K. L. (2025). Manifesting the village: Black othermothering, arts-based interventions, and curriculum building toward educator capability [Conference session]. Graduate Research in Art Education Symposium, Columbus, OH.
Robinson, K. L. (2025). Black othermothering, arts-based interventions, and curriculum building toward educator efficacy [Symposium]. Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum, Columbus, OH.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
Robinson, K. L. (2026). Manifesting the village: Building a creative village of Black othermothers toward educator capability [Conference session]. National Art Education Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
wilson, g. j., Robinson, K. L., Hill, I., & Summey, S. (2026). Composing otherwise: Black Studies and the future of arts-based education research [Conference session]. American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, CA.
wilson, g. j., Banner, T., Robinson, K. L., Hill, I., & Summey, S. (2026). Black Studies and Art Education: Fugitivity, Black Archives, Black Gazes, and Other Modes of Knowing [Conference session]. National Art Education Association, Chicago, IL.
Sachdeva, N. M. & Robinson, K. L. (2025). Cultural Resources and their Preservice Educator Counterparts [Conference session]. Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, Albuquerque, NM.
Robinson, K. L. (2025). Brown Sugar Paradigms Pt. I [Conference session]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL.
wilson, g. j., Sachdeva, N. M., Robinson, K. L., Singh, A. (2024). Putting Critical Theory into Practice: Centering Positionalities of the Global Majority for Art Education [Conference session]. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, MN.
wilson, g. j., Sachdeva, N. M., Robinson, K. L. (2023). Critical Arts Praxis: Moving Beyond Performativity. In Skaggs, R. (Chair), Resilient Artists, Resilient Communities [Symposium]. Barnett Symposium, Columbus, OH.
Robinson, K. L., wilson, g. j., Sachdeva, N. M., Smith, K. C. (2023). Gesturing toward the Undone as Creative Provocation - Rehearsals in Antiracism pt. II [Conference session]. Imagining America National Gathering, Providence, RI.
Kraehe, A., wilson, g. j., Collins, T., Robinson, K. L. (2023). Creative Pathways to Servingness through the Arts [Webinar]. Centering Servingness Webinar Series, Tucson, AZ.
Robinson, K. L., Vargas, R. M., wilson, g. j., (2022). Embodied Encounters: Engaging Arts-Based Processes to Move Beyond Racial Conversations [Conference session]. Facing Race Conference, Phoenix, AZ. https://facingrace.raceforward.org/speaker/k-lynn-robinson
Robinson, K. L. (2021). Decolonizing the Museum May Be, in Fact, Deeply Colonial: A Case for Radical Renaming. In K. L. Robinson & M. Alves (Chairs), Heirlooms: Growing throughlines of knowledge in the arts and education [Symposium]. University of Arizona Emerging Conversations, Virtual.
Carter, B., Robinson, K. L., Acuna, E., Uralov, D., Ketema, T., Gordon, M. (2021). The Robinhood of 3D: Democratizing volumetric capture for more accessible and innovative learning environments [Paper presentation]. International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation, Virtual.
Carter, B., Robinson, K. L., Acuna, E., Gordon, M. (2021). Volumetric Capture, Community Democratization, and the Digital Humanities [Conference Session]. Facebook Summit, Virtual.
Carter, B., Robinson, K. L. (2021). Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge through Holographic Orality: A primer on volumetric video streaming in a museum setting [Conference session]. Association of African American Museums Annual Conference, Virtual.
Robinson, K. L. (2021). Museum Multivocality through AR. In A. Coleman (Chair) Re-Imagining History: Dismantling Master Narratives of Art Education History. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Virtual.
Discussant
Kraehe, A., Rowling, J. H., Kantawala, A. (September 2020). Black Lives Matter: Antiracism Research in Art Education [Webinar]. Art Education Research Institute Friday Dialogue Series, Virtual.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Robinson, K. L. (accepted for publication in 2026). Review of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Studies in Art Education.
Robinson, K. L. (2025). Collective actions: A response to the Whitney Museum of Art and a case for Black archival and aesthetic practices as movement building. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 42(1), 43-60. https://doi.org/10.2458/jcrae.7517.
Honors & Awards
Recipient; Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship | Ohio State University | 2025
This $3000 award from the Graduate School supports the research and scholarship of doctoral and other terminal research degree candidates.
Recipient; AERI Dissertation Award | Art Education Research Institute (AERI) | 2025
This honor recognizes the outstanding quality and significance of doctoral research in art education.
3rd Place Recipient in the Arts; Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum | Ohio State University | 2025
Showcases the innovative and exemplary research being conducted by Ohio State graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across the full range of graduate degree programs and research topics. The top three judged presentations in each academic area are awarded.
Recipient; Dr. Maria Teresa Velez Diversity Leadership Scholarship | University of Arizona | 2022
This $25,000 award is given annually to a doctoral student at the University of Arizona who has demonstrated a commitment to furthering diversity in education, higher education, and the community at large through their teaching, research, or outreach and service.
Co-Writer; Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE) Training Institute Grant | University of Arizona STEM Learning Center | 2021
This $7,000 grant supports proposals centered on building the institution’s capacity for providing scaled research experiences within the curriculum for undergraduates. A proposal was accepted for an arts-infused digital humanities practice-based course.
Professional Activities & Service
Professional Service & Leadership
Co-Web Designer (Ex-Officio), International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA) | 2025-Present
Editorial Assistant; Handbook on Critical Arts-Based Methods (Upcoming), Routledge | 2024-Present
Editorial Assistant; Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (jCRAE) | 2024-Present
Editorial Review Board; Art Education Journal, National Art Education Association (NAEA) | 2023-Present
Editorial Design Layout; Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (jCRAE) | 2022-2024
Graduate Research Fellow; Museum as Prism: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Docent Training | 2022
Proposal Reviewer; Committee on Multiethnic Concerns, National Art Education Association Conference | 2021
National Art Education Association Policy Review Committee | 2021-2022
National Art Education Association Committee on Multiethnic Concerns, Ad-Hoc 50th Anniversary Committee | 2020-2021
University Service
Vice President, Ohio State University Black Graduate and Professional Student Caucus | 2025-Present
Graduate Advisor; Women Who Serve | 2025-Present
Historian; Ohio State University Black Graduate and Professional Student Caucus | 2024-2025
Treasurer; Ohio State University Arts Administration, Education, and Policy, Arts Priori | 2023-2024
Graduate Council Representative; University of Arizona Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series (VASE) Committee | 2021-2023
Art & Visual Culture Education Program Representative; University of Arizona College of Fine Arts Graduate Council | 2021-2023
Vice President; University of Arizona Black Graduate Student Association | 2021-2022
University of Arizona Arizona Arts Diversity & Inclusion Committee | 2021-2022
Co-Chair; University of Arizona Emerging Conversations Symposium | 2021
Community Engagement
Marketing and Communications Co-Chair; Open House Atlanta Citywide Architecture Festival | 2013-2019
Gallery Event Design Planner/Contributor; Community Planning & Design Initiative (CPDI) Africa | 2015-2016
Public Relations Committee; American Institute of Architects National Conference on Architecture | 2015
Regional Archive Program Events Committee; Atlanta Architecture Design Center | 2014-2016
Professional Affiliations
National Art Education Association
International Society for Education Through Art
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries
American Education Research Association
College Art Association