About Robin
Respected journalist, influential Instagrammer, and the former longtime editor of ARTnews, Robin Cembalest has built a specialty in professional training for the digital era. She teaches writing, social media, public speaking, and other essential skills across the art industry.
Cembalest works as educator, consultant, coach, and mentor, helping institutions and individuals to communicate effectively and sharing her expertise on the changing shape of art media. A faculty member of School of Visual Arts, where she teaches in several departments, Cembalest has developed new coursework that helps artists navigate websites, social media, that dreaded elevator pitch, and all the other demands of self-promotion today. As a writer and reporter, Cembalest published influential coverage on the culture wars, censorship, multiculturalism, and museum politics, now available on her website.
These days she is also known as @rcembalest, handle of her lively Instagram chronicling her travels in the art world.
| 
