Entrepreneur and veteran Visual & Performing Artist Robin Mills is a native of Chocowinity North Carolina. Through her workings she has proven herself to be a champion of the Art and the entrepreneur spirit. When speaking with Robin Mills one comes away with the understanding that she believes that art is the universal language that bridges gaps to conscious and subconscious thinking. Mills is a philosophical thinker and humanitarian by pure nature. She has promoted not only her craft, but the crafts of countless performing and visual artists as well as entrepreneurs. Her no nonsense tactics are the bases for organizations that continue to support and uplifts artists as well as provide cultural outlets for the community at large and art enthusiasts.
“If words are what we speak, a language compiled of words that were created, is it not possible that our thinking is limited to vocabulary? How can you label a sensation that cannot be accurately defined because each person feels and responds to a sensation differently? We are born with senses not language. We mimic “ma ma” and “da da”, some say it’s universal, I say it is because that is what the baby hears over and over again. Then we are introduced to vocabulary that labels things like chairs, books…tangible things, things that can be held. The inventors of words went so far as to label things that cannot be held. Most people can hear, taste, smell, feel and see. So they labeled these senses. Most people get angry, love, hate and care. Those words are filed away under the emotions category. There is a category for everything. People started with the number one and went as far as they could, must have got tired of coming up with more words for numbers so they made up the word infinite. Every now and then another word is thrown into the dictionary. Just to make sure no one gets confused they came up with the thesaurus, a book that gave us words to take the place words that we commonly use. What if we didn’t have words? I am a writer who understands that some things cannot be verbally expressed, therefore I paint. There is a different kind of power in willing words that string a tale before prying eyes set to see. I am a poet. Words have always been my friend. I have a natural way with them. Even though I am somewhat of a reclose, I have my moments when I crave the mic….It is in those moments that I am in rarer form than usual. It is a beautiful thing to be an artist. It explains a lot. There is a respect among pure artists that has no boundaries and is a law unto itself.” -Robin Mills
Robin Mills is the founder of Breathe to Think, more affectionately known as BTT. Breathe to Think is an open forum from which performing artists display their crafts. BTT created the “Original Cash Money Open Mic” in an effort to scout talent that later became known as BTT Platform House Performers. BTT has showcased some of the most talented performing artist from in and around the North Carolina area. Founded in 2009, BTT continues to facilitate the process of the Performing artists.
The birth of Breathe to Think gave way to the Birth of the Visual Artists Realm, often referred to as VAR. VAR represents the most talented self-taught visual artists in North Carolina. VAR has hosted and continues to host countless art showing in both traditional and nontraditional venues. VAR affords the artists the opportunity to creative live and often is the emerging artists first step in debuting their work, in an effort to promote their work.
Mills is a columnist at The Carolina Cal Newspaper, an extension of the Carolinian Newspaper based out of Raleigh, North Carolina.
“I remember when I was a little girl. I remember the teacher told us to write our dreams on a sheet of paper. The we folded our papers in a tidy little square and stapled all the way around it. Then the teacher put the little squares in a box ……I don’t know what became of the box that housed all our little dreams but I do know that “I Want to write for the NEW PAPER” was written on my little list. And look at me now J I call my column “The Black Birds Eye View. My publisher Paul Jervey, told me that I can write about whatever I wanted to as long as it was for the people and uplifting. I speak my mind. The CAROLINA CALL is growing, now circulating in Franklin, Vance, Warren, Nash, Edgecombe, and Wilson counties. with a readership of 60,000” -Robin Mills
Robin Mills is a: Writer, Founder of the Think Tank, and CEO of Mills Virtual Marketing Solutions. It is safe to say that Mills wears a lot of hats and a fact to say that they all fit
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