Alethea Robbins is a trans-disciplinary artist born in Mississippi in 1984. She received her BFA in photography in 2008, then an MFA in interdisciplinary studio arts from Maine College of Art in 2010. As a creative maker she works in diverse media such as clothing construction, quilting, embroidery, photography, painting, and installation. Her work is rooted in research-based methods including concepts of health, spirituality, economics, and accessibility.

Her work has been published in Camera Obscura, Metazen, and Calyx. Her photographs and installations have been showcased in galleries, museums, and alternative spaces across the
nation. Her work unveils the enigmatic beauty of relationships and difficult to name phenomena through familiar realms such as quilts, mail-order catalogs, and retail shops. In these ordinary objects and spaces her work disrupts the rituals of consumer life, examining the complex, inescapable role of art and objects in crafting our personhood.