“Cassandra’s Daughter” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2026) just showed at Future Fair NYC with The CAMP Gallery and is available on artsy

“May this book, which centers Audre Lorde as a wonder of the world, increase your questioning active wonder. Read this book as a survival guide, a point of connection through Audre’s life to the most pressing questions about our own and collective relationship to our shifting ecosystem.”

Book recommendation: The short stories and central novel in Stag Dance by Torrey Peters, includes a mix of sci fi, gothic fiction, and navigates fetish, fantasy, and gender identity often within different landscapes of masculine socialized spaces and conflicted desires.

Grateful to be more physically myself and to be joining friends for the No Kings March! NYers really showed up with signs that covered so many of the terribleness that demands protest, as well as the many causes and values that deserve protection and care!

Finished our two signs for tomorrow: mine is “protect trans lives, liberty, happiness” and Joseph’s is “immigrants welcome here” with the Statue of Liberty as protest marcher with signs #nokings #artactivism

Today’s chalking. Tomorrow we show up For our community For democracy For decency Why are YOU showing up? #NoKings @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social

“This Tender Spring” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2026) - in studio, a front view of this doll-sized sculptural garment h: 18” x w: 16” x 6” sculptural garment with textile collage, stenciled text with machine and hand-stitching, sequins and beading, semi-precious stones on fabric 🪡🧵🧿🙏❤️ ~ Sylvan

ViewFromHere: Bay Ridge Brooklyn blizzard 2026 so far ❄️🙏🧙‍♂️

Marking Eight Years 💔

I joined the Art Against Empire podcast sharing my work with Gays Against Guns and the art of remembrance 🙏❤️ ~ Sylvan

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

We don’t want Greenland. We want healthcare.

What I Read in 2025:

ViewFromHere: major snowstorm, very cold, bringing a lot of snow our way. We’re staying cosy, fire in the fireplace, wondering how much snow we’ll wake to tomorrow morning 🌬️❄️🙏🧙‍♂️

“Cassandras are not reasoning on the basis of fear; rather, their reasoning has led to a conclusion that is frightening… being a clear, critical thinker is the first of the things that make someone more likely to have ‘got it’ early—and it’s how Cassandras often understand themselves.”

Marking 13 years 💔 December 14, 2012

It is really incredible that one can be home and kinda up and about a week after super skilled humans cut into your rib cage and respliced some plumbing around your heart! 🫀🙏❤️

Finished this great (and timely) exploration of all things (including downfalls) of the Roman emperors by Mary Beard. Discussed not chronological but in chapters grouped by different categories very effectively - with her trademark wit and abundance of historical narratives it is fascinating read

I wrote about some things making me furious open.substack.com/pub/mollyjon...

End gun violence

I got my “not accepted” email from a show that was so niche regionally and media-wise that seemed like the most likely of recent applications (I was included in two less likely others) as we know, it is all so subjective - and easy to share the successes without naming the rejections 🪡🧵🙏❤️

This one is sold and heading off to Denmark! “Ocean Eyes” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2024) textile collage on fabric with hand-beading, sequins, and embroidery. No glass, framed 11 1/4” x 9 1/4” x 1 1/4” 🌈🪩🧜‍♂️🧜‍♂️🌊🪡🧵❤️⭐️👏~ Sylvan

Today was the first day of school for my 36th academic year, my 8th since returning back to Brooklyn to my original campuses after 18 years in Baltimore; I’ve taught ages 3 through seniors in college in a wide range of disciplines! Now in my 16th year of service in senior administration 🙏❤️

Shipped 6 of my oracle sculptures for Artist/Fabricator Sept 12-Dec 5, 2025 at University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Fine Arts Center, Amherst Curator: Kristina L. Durocher, Director of Visual Arts Fine Arts Center

I’ve been working on “We Honor and Remember the 43,310 Killed by Gun Violence in the U.S. in 2023” - (back and front views). This is the fourth memorial garment annual memorial garments arising from my ongoing research and gathering of names and histories for Gays Against Guns

“These were people who were unable to sit out a historic cataclysm. They were driven, by nature, by practice, or by some combination thereof, to defend people in trouble through standing with them… In case of emergency, they were not bystanders.” ~ Sarah Schulman, Let The Record Show

@bkindivisible.bsky.social at our congressional rep Bay Ridge office to urge Nicole Malliotakis to vote NO on this terrible budget. As constituents we tried to go into the office but staffer would only speak to us through the door. I also left another message for Malliotakis through her DC Office

"We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups." ~ Starhawk, Truth or Dare

Details from special commissioned garments for magical queer wedding this weekend! This Pride month was really all about manifesting these personal, loving art spell pieces for a beloved couple. There’ll be more photos after we join these dear friends for their wedding weekend! 🌈❤️❤️🪡🧵🙏 ~ Sylvan

These two sculptural protest signs get their own post - I told the art couple carrying them these were in a whole other category of awesome protest signs/props creation - make sure to zoom in to look at the details of the second one a little further behind #nokings #nokingsnyc #protestart

"And so the revolution unfolds. We don't need to wait for it, we can be it, live it now. Another world is possible, and necessary, and here. We are its co-creators, its dreamers, its defenders, its midwives, guiding it to light, bringing it to birth." ~ Starhawk

Starting small portraits of Queer Artist Ancestors with this piece honoring Candy Darling! I’m using trapunto technique: stitch on the top layer, cut an opening in the backing, and then stuff the shape, stitch closed the back; here the face has a more sculptural relief quality as a result. 🪡🧵❤️⭐️👏

Resist Injustices - the two sides of my artful protest sign for tomorrow’s march 🧿🌈❤️🙏 ~ Sylvan

“reflect / review / revise / restore” Installing at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition at the finish of this Venus retrograde 2025 with three of my sculptural fashion art garments, including the Venus Retrograde Gown, exhibited in “Threaded Visions: Fashion in Art” 4/26 –5/18 🪡🧵❤️ ~ Sylvan

Made another call to the DC office of Malliotakis to remind my terrible Republican representative that her budget vote relinquishing congressional oversight on tariffs is responsible for our tanking retirement funds, and escalating higher costs 1/

SylvanStudioView: finished “Urban Atlas Holding the Weight of the World” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2025) textile collage on canvas 20” x 16” x 1 1/2” 👁️🧿🪡🧵❤️⭐️👏 ~ Sylvan

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“dispel projections” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2024) textile collage on canvas 24” x 36” x 1 1/2” is currently in Miami at the CAMP Gallery and available on Artsy - lots of fabric layers with hand-beading and extensive embroidery to connect the different textile collage components 🪩🧿🪡🧵🙏❤️ ~ Sylvan

For this start of Venus Retrograde 2025 here’s a detail of “Love’s Patient Resilience” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2024) textile collage with beading, sequins, and embroidery 39 1/2” x 54” - Available the CAMP Gallery and Artsy 🌊🧿🪡🧵🙏❤️⭐️👏 ~ Sylvan

"The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we shall need to find both the courage and grace to deal constructively with whatever fears remain." ~ Bill W.

This morning I called (again) my Republican NYC congressional representative, Malliotakis, to remind her that she repeatedly promised no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, but tonight she voted for billionaires over regular people, including her own voters. I’m going to keep calling

Ten years ago today, in Baltimore, I fell at school on a frozen patch of ice and shattered my left ankle. My life then was woefully unprepared for the upheaval of such an injury. After the accident, the months that followed included two surgeries and a long physical therapy recovery. 1/

SylvanStudioView: “healer” new finished smaller work, textile collage on fabric with hand-beading and embroidery 10 1/2” x 5” 👁️🪡🧵🧿❤️⭐️👏 ~ Sylvan

To overcome or even slow the momentum of the forces arrayed against us will require our resolve, and an ecosystem of resistance – litigation, activism, organizing, direct action, communications, political pressure, and our voices raised to speak truth to power…”

We probably need some of this! “mystic’s hand: uncurse” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2024) several views of this textile collage sculpture with hand-beading and embroidery on repurposed display form 14” x 5” x 8” Available @thecampgallery 👁️🗝️🧿🙏🧙🏻‍♂️~ Sylvan