Robin Earles

Robin Earles

Gallery Director; Assistant Professor, Art, CLASS

As a member of the MSU Billings faculty since 2020, Robin has taught a variety of classes ranging from visual languages to painting to printmaking. She is also the director of Northcutt Steele Gallery, where she manages the schedule of exhibits that showcase the artwork of faculty, students and visiting artists.

Robin has had solo exhibitions in California and Montana and her work has been featured in several group and juried exhibitions in the region.  Her nominators noted her ability to take the teaching and learning opportunities at Northcutt Steele Gallery to new levels, benefitting not only MSU Billings, but the entire Billings community.

“Her generous spirit extends invitations to working artists to engage with our students, faculty, staff, and community to partake and learn from the guest artists and their impressive exhibitions,” one nominator wrote. “Some of these guest artists have been part of our growing artist in residency program. Robin has singlehandedly taken on the development of this artist in residency program to bring innovative international artists to campus.”

A key focus of her role at the gallery is to curate exhibitions that can provide new insights and research in contemporary art, a nominator wrote.

“Robin’s flexibility in working with guest artists, established faculty, busy students, and the hungry community to bring cutting edge professional exhibitions to our university showcases her abilities to bring worlds together in a single room.”