Prize Winner 2019:
Kristina Kay Robinson
Kristina Kay Robinson is a poet, writer, and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her written, visual and curatorial practice centers and interrogates the modern and ancient connections between world communities. Robinson’s work both at home and abroad focuses on the impact of globalization, militarism, and surveillance on society and their intersections with contemporary art and pop culture. Robinson’s ongoing installation and performance art project, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound, is featured in Notes For Tomorrow with Independent Curators International. Her writing in various genres has appeared in Art in America, Guernica, The Baffler, The Nation, The Massachusetts Review and Elle, among other outlets. Robinson is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize. She serves as the New Orleans editor at large for the Atlanta-based Burnaway magazine.