About RedLine Contemporary Art Center
Located in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, RedLine Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit arts organization that fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change.
The work of RedLine Contemporary Art Center has never been more potent. RedLine exists to empower artists, expand access to creative space, and foster education and civic engagement in the arts. We exist to create positive social change through art. In fulfilling our mission, RedLine is the place where art flourishes and intersects with community—bringing forth its inherent power to bridge our society’s divergent and often divisive viewpoints.
Although our work often involves complex and painful realities, RedLine does not take institutional stances on geopolitical conflicts or serve as a political arbiter. RedLine is not a gatekeeper of who is morally permitted to create art or to support the arts. We believe that pursuing positive social transformation requires nuance, care, and the refusal to flatten complex identities into accusations.
RedLine believes in the dignity and humanity of all communities, and rejects rhetoric that dehumanizes others. To that end, we remain committed to holding a safe space where artists are supported to wrestle with their own vision of truth and where community and learning through the arts is embraced.
Art does not belong to the realms of polemic and ideology; art lives in creativity that supports our common humanity, challenges our paradigms, and holds the power to heal—not through division but in unification. Faithful to our mission, RedLine is excited to continue its important work at a time when art’s universal power has never been more important or needed.
RedLine will not deviate from its values in serving our community. We are grateful for our artists and for the wonderful, multifaceted community that supports them.
To foster education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change.
RedLine’s Vision
That every person is empowered to create positive social change through art.
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Socially Engaged Art at RedLine
Discover what socially engaged art is and how RedLine’s programs embody socially engaged art practices.
Robin is an educator, youth advocate, and nonprofit leader with a passion for fashion and a quasi-Buddhist sensibility.
Before joining the RedLine team in 2011, she spent five years teaching middle school math and visual arts in Aurora Public Schools, as well as one year teaching in Monterrey, Mexico.
Robin holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology, with a focus on mental health in schools, and believes that artists can be powerful agents for social change through education and community engagement.
Over her 13 years at RedLine, Robin has been privileged to work at the intersection of art and social justice, challenging conventional ways of teaching, thinking, making art, and being in the world.