Robyn Crosa was born in Miami, Florida, to immigrant families from Cuba and Lebanon. She spent her early childhood in the Tampa Bay area before relocating to the greater Atlanta area, where she matured into adulthood and established herself as an artist. After taking a life-changing trip to visit relatives in Cuba, she realized that family was the most important thing in the world to her. Recently, she decided to move back to Florida to be closer to her family and currently resides in . Saint Petersburg, Florida.
The artist considers herself a Renaissance woman and a devotee of Mother Nature, a theme that threads her artistic work together with a love of Mother Earth. She believes that creative work is a form of worship and a sacred ritual to Mother Nature.
Robyn’s style reflects folk art inspired by the works of indigenous people, as well as self-taught folk artists including Howard Finster (Talking Heads album cover) and Xavior Roberts (creator of Cabbage Patch Kids). She creates her doll sculptures based on the natural shape of the wood and embellishes them with wood-burning techniques, acrylic paint, and found objects. Her first gourds were created as self-portraits, leveraging their natural feminine shape and seen through her eyes as a reunion with her mother and sisters.
Her work has received an Honorable Mention in the school-wide Dean’s Art Award Contest in the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University, and a first-place ribbon at the Georgia Gourd Festival in Griffin, GA. Most recently, her pieces have been displayed at the Salvador Dalí Museum Holiday Art Show in Saint Petersburg, FL; the Carrollwood Cultural Center in Tampa; the Morean; and ArtsxChange. Ms. Crosa was the recipient of the Emerging Artist Grant at the Florida CraftArt Festival in 2020. She also received the Pinellas Recovers National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the St. Pete Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant, and the Gobioff Grant. In 2024, Robyn was selected to participate in the Skyway Project, and her work will be exhibited at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. She is currently a member of the Women’s Caucus for Art and the Mi Gente Mi Pueblo Latinx Community Organization.
