Robbi Firestone

Robbi Firestone is a multidisciplinary artist exploring Inner, Outer, and Virtual Reality Landscapes of mind and place using virtual reality, traditional mediums (oil, pastels, portraits), NFTs, and digital mediums. She created Live VR Performance in OpenBrush for NFT-NYC VIPS and is booked for events, conferences, fundraisers, and museums. Recently Firestone was accepted to HUG NFT’s prestigious Innovation Laboratory program. Firestone is the Creative Director for NFT Club FOMO & is on the Board of Advisors: SearchLightNFT.

A featured artist on Makersplace, her NFT Exhibitions include SXSW, & Art Basel Miami, Domance, Domelandia, FigureGlyph, Gender Equality & Future Femme through FortGalleryNFT, and IllustSpace. Speaker at Bill Tai's ACTAI Global tech conferences, Firestone's works have been featured in The NYTimes, Worth, LA Travel, and Huffington Post.

Owner of Santa Fe Art Classes awarded "Travelers Choice 2020, 2021, 2023", she is TripAdvisor's #1 art class/Workshop in Santa Fe for 5+ years.

Firestone's art installation, TheEmptyWomb.com, premiered at the United Nations with a documentary by an internationally acclaimed filmmaker: available on Amazon Prime. Awards include Iconic Leaders Bettering the World for All by Women's Economic Forum. She attended Parsons & FIT. https://linktr.ee/FirestoneArt

As a new media artist, live performer and creator, Robbi Firestone is at the forefront of exploring the creative possibilities that arise from the intersection of humans and machines.

With a deep appreciation for the natural world and a fascination for the latest technology, Firestone's artworks embody a seamless fusion of the two.

Through live virtual reality performances and NFT creations, Firestone offers a new form of storytelling that invites audiences to rediscover their connection to nature and the cosmos. In her VR performances, Firestone creates serene landscapes and figures with vibrant, saturated colors that reflect the beauty and power of the natural world.

Raised in rural Missouri, Firestone was parented by bareback horses, the magic of fireflies, river mud, and dandelion necklaces. Through her constant experimentation and use of virtual reality, digital tools, AI, and NFTs, she offers a glimpse into a world where technology and nature exist in harmony.

Her vision is to demonstrate that the gifts of technological advancement can enhance our humanity and relationship with the natural world, providing a more holistic existence.

With her work, Firestone challenges the notion that technology inevitably disconnects us from nature. Instead, she offers a compelling vision of how humans and machines can coexist in a way that celebrates the wonder and beauty of the world around us.

Through her innovative use of technology and art, Firestone is paving the way for a future where creativity and technology are inextricably intertwined, leading to a more harmonious and fulfilling human experience.

Firestone lives, paints, skis and hikes and nerds out on crypto currency, tech and NFTs in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Connect for more HERE.

Check out my SPEAKER - NFT CONSULTING CV HERE.

Briefly...

Robbi Firestone creates art in physical, virtual, augmented and mixed realities as a Web3 Creator/NFT artist, performer, Creative Director, & NFT project consultant.

Firestone's focus is to inspire, empower, educate and embolden mission driven, talented, conscious Creators to design a new, equitable, healthy future for humanity and planet via Web3.

Firestone feely traverses from digital NFTs to IRL traditional and non-art mediums to most effectively, '...render or reconcile my message."

Career Highlights

NFT Artist, Speaker & Creative Consultant, Firestone was featured artist at South By Southwest & 2021 Art Basel Miami.

Proud to be a Maker's Place Featured Artist, Firestone's NFT Exhibitions in AR & VR include Domance, Domelandia, MakersPlace O(v.)erturned, IllustSpace, SearchlightNFT's Cr3ativeXNYC, FigureGlyph, Gender Equality, WOCA's Women of Crypto Art, FortGallery NFT Future Femme and Royalty, Doingud in CrytpoVoxels, etc.

Firestone soon launches her 'Political Pop' project, CrunchTrump: a 4'h x 3'w portrait of Donald Trump made entirely of Cheetos. A 10k NFT collection, will donate 8% of profit to planetary conservation efforts.

Firestone is a commissioned Artist for Grammy Winners including as MercyMe, KebMo, and band Mayhem Lane.

Virtual Reality Artist/Performer/Fundraising Firestone creates Metaverse fine art via Tilt-brush, enabling viewers to 'enter INTO the painting' via Occulus. Firestone created real-time Meta art experiences at SearchlightNFT: NYC-NFT and @TheClubFomo.

Creative Director Currently serving as Founding Creative Director & NFT Artist for Club FOMO (the first Metaverse & IRL exclusive, members club), Firestone is on the Board of Advisors for SearchLight NFT.

Speaking Engagements With decades of media experience, Firestone hosts Twitter Spaces NFT-licious and produces Web3 onboarding content for youtube, galleries, museums & corporate clients. 2022: ACTAI Global, St. Moritz, Barbados, and Necker Island.

Interviewer/Moderator/Facilitator Her 25 years of international speaking engagements include United Nations, Young President’s Organization , Gold President’s Organization, ACTAI Global, United Centers for Spiritual Living, Women’s Economic Forum, UNM, India Oil Corp, SCORE, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, etc.

Featured Media Firestone's works have been featured in The New York Times, Worth Magazine, LATravel, Boston Herald, Huffington Post, Seattle Times, inaugural cover Santa Fean NOW and more.

Firestone garnered international attention for her art installation, The Empty Womb, which premiered at the United Nations 'in Parallel with the Commission on the Status of Women in 2017.

Subject of Documentary Film Internationally best-selling documentary filmmaker, Betsy Chasse, produced The Empty Womb film about Firestone's work: available on Amazon Prime. (Chasse wrote, directed and produced 30 documentaries including, What the Bleep Do We Know.)

Portraits Commissioned portraits include note-able art collectors, Grammy Winners, CEOs, athletes and global visionaries.

Entrepreneur Firestone owns and operates Santa Fe Art Classes.com, where "Everyone is an Artist." She and her exceptional team is currently voted TripAdvisor's #1 Art Class/Workshop, Best of the Best 2020, and International Travel & Hospitality 2021: Cultural Experience of the Year in New Mexico.

Corporate Art/Media: NYC & LA Advertising & Design gigs include Director of Development; Kudos Inc. 2002-05. Communications & PR; TypoMedia 2000, Mainz Germany. Creative Account Executive: Update Graphics, 1996-2001. Freelance Art Director & Designer NYC & LA 1997-2002. Art Director; Michael Friedman Publishers (Division of Harper Collins) NYC 1994-1997.

A Celebration Of Trees

Created with the intention of educating and expanding thought and consciousness about the world’s vast network of trees while showcasing their beauty, mystery, and how important they are to humanity’s survival.

It will run from October through December 18 and include a partnership with the non-profit organization Archangel Ancient Tree Archive who will be planting over 100 coastal redwoods in our area in the coming months!

Highlighting powerful stories from around the world, including those of indigenous peoples–the original guardians of the forest –a thoughtful series of programming will include documentary films, talks from both artists and environmentalists, creative workshops, and educational events in collaboration with nature-focused organizations from across the East End of Long Island.

We are delighted to announce a diverse array of artists from over 20 countries, including famed photographer and defender of the Amazon– Sebastião Salgado, environmental painter Sibylle Szaggars Redford, political / philosophical artist Charles Gaines, self-taught woodworker and guitarist Freeman Vines, Hopi / Tewa artist Dan Namingha, and more.

To find out more about "A Celebration Of Trees", please click HERE.

Location

The Empty Womb

The Empty Womb art installation combines medical and pharmaceutical paraphernalia from Firestone’s personal in-vitro journey with traditional women’s work (crocheting, video, embroidery, fabric work, lullabies).

The Empty Womb is a short documentary...raw, honest and an authentic exploration into the deep painful emotions such as grief, jealousy, rage and loss experienced by Robbi Firestone as she shares her journey making fiercely honest art to heal her experience through Infertility, and support other women grieving the loss of Motherhood.

The documentary by internationally renowned, award winning filmmaker, Betsy Chasse (Writer/Producer/Director of "What the Bleep do We Know," and 30+ documentaries.) Available on Amazon Prime.

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