About Becci Robbins

Becci Robbins has been communications director of the SC Progressive Network since its founding in 1996. Before that, she was editor for 10 years of the alternative newspaper POINT. Today, she helps manage the Network’s leadership institute, the Modjeska Simkins School, and GROW, “the intersection of art, activism, and education” in Columbia. Whenever possible, she retreats to the wide porch of her studio, a repurposed Airstream in the woods on the Saluda River. It is her very favorite place. She shares a home in Lexington with her husband, Brett, three cats, a dog, and free-range hens who have mastered the cat door. 

Artist Statement:
I am a self-taught mosaic artist especially drawn to the technique of pique assiette (French for “plate thief”), the craft of using pottery shards, broken china, and found objects to create something new. It is recycling at its best. For me, crafting is therapy, a return to my center, a blessed break from the news and other outside noise. Making mosaics is a meditation on shape, texture, color, and composition. I find the tactile nature of the process satisfying: cutting, sanding, gluing, grouting, polishing. To watch a piece emerge is always a surprise.