Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson of Columbus, Ohio, said she never had "any doubt in her mind about being an artist." By the time she was named a fellow in 2004, she was well into a lifetime of creativity. She first displayed her art in 1948, when she was 8 years old. Robinson has made thousands of pieces: cloth paintings, quilts, book illustrations, drawings. Among her media is "hogmaw," a mixture of clay, twigs, mud, lime and grease that she learned how to make from her father.