January – April 2025

Robin Bruce is a writer, visual artist, musician, and contemplative artist, weaving multiple disciplines into performance art, songs, and manuscripts for television and film. She also teaches meditation, deep relaxation, and breathwork classes in Northwest Arkansas, using singing and guided visualization as portals into spaces of rest and deep care. She’s released three records under the name Dharampal and published two full-length manuscripts: one emphasizing memoir, journaling, and meditation; the other, a text-and-image piece titled, Dear Gordon. In 2021, she received the Artists 360 Practicing Artist Grant, and later, the Benjamin Lever Tuition Fellowship from the University of Arkansas in 2023. Her M.A. is in Religious Studies from Naropa University and she’s in her fourth and final year of the MFA in Creative Writing and Translation at The University of Arkansas. Through her teaching, performances, recordings, and writing, she highlights themes of friendship, love, community, and nature.

During her residency, Robin will work on her screenplay, A.I. Henry, a story about an A.I. bot originally designed for city planning who begins creating art of their own. She will also explore adapting the story into a radio format and may record it at the library's Center for Innovation (CFI). Through the residency, Robin will offer classes titled “Developing Voice in Your Writing,” “Ekphrasis,” “Text & Image,” and “Finding Freedom in Your Creativity.”