Rob Summerlin is an award-winning storyteller and merrymaker who moves between illustration, music, film, and performance. He is Queer, French, and American living on the unceded ancestral land of the Ramaytush Ohlone.

Summerlin has a soft spot for witnessing the quiet moments of eccentric characters on the fringe.


Residencies etc.

- Shakespeare & Co, Tumbleweed 2013
- Aspen Institute Poetry Workshop 2017
- Alchemy Arts Center, San Juan, WA 2023
- Artist Against Apartheid, 2024 - Present

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