Shantay Robinson

Shantay Robinson is a freelance art writer, having written for ARTnews, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington City Paper, Arts ATL, Burnaway, Number, Inc. Afropunk, Black Art in America, and ARTS.BLACK. She participated in the inaugural class of Burnaway Magazine’s Art Writers Mentorship Program, Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies Digital Publishing Project Editorial Fellowship, and CUE Art Foundation’s Art Critic Mentoring Program. 

She presented papers on art and education at SCAD’s (Savannah College of Art and Design) Symposium on Art and Fashion, Georgia State University’s New Voices Graduate Student Conference, Georgia State University’s Glorious Hair and Academic Identities Conference, Northeastern Modern Languages Association Conference, New York African Studies Association Conference, and others. She has published scholarly articles in Teaching Artist Journal andInternational Review of African American Art.

Robinson wholly self-produced a documentary, Untangled: Getting to the Roots of a Hair Movement, that screened at ATHICA (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art), Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Northern Virginia Community College Woodbridge, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and other sites. 

She holds a PhD in Writing and Rhetoric from George Mason University. Her scholarly interests include visual rhetoric and multimodal composition.

Degrees:

• PhD in Writing and Rhetoric, George Mason University

• MS in Communication and Composition, Minnesota State University, Mankato

• MFA in Writing, Savannah College of Art and Design

• BS in Television, Radio, Film Management, Syracuse University

Courses Taught

English 101: Rhetoric and Composition

English 301: Advanced Composition

AVT 395: Writing for Artists