Robbin Légère Henderson

A featured artist in Chasing Justice, Robbin Henderson, discusses her original scratchboard drawings, and the inspiration for the series, her grandmother, a “Wobbly”—an Industrial Worker of the World (IWW), and early feminist. Robbin Légère Henderson has been drawing and painting in the Bay Area for over thirty years. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon; holds a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley, and studied painting and printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. For many years, she was a facilitator of other artists’ careers as the Executive Director or curator of community art centers, principally the Berkeley Art Center. Over the past decades Henderson’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Armory Center for the Arts in Los Angeles, Instituto de Bellas Artes, Managua, Nicaragua. Her work is in public collections in Washington DC (the National Archives, Library of Congress); US National Park Service (Petrified Forest, Arizona); Alameda County Art Collection, and private collections in New York City; Los Angeles, California; Portland, Oregon (Reed College), Taos, New Mexico; Berlin, Germany; Istanbul, Turkey; Masterton, New Zealand; Managua, Nicaragua; and Torino, Italy.