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We were lucky to catch up with Robin recently and have shared our conversation below.

A series on healing through art, culture, and storytelling, featuring a conversation with Robin Slonina.

Robin Barcus Slonina always has a number of things going on, creatively speaking. She's the proprietor of Skin City Body Painting; a producer and judge on the Game Show Network's body painting competition show Skin Wars; and she's involved with several local art ventures at any given time.

Las Vegas tends to destroy its landmarks the moment they go out of style. But every now and then, we repurpose our old, dilapidated buildings to a better use: A former Downtown medical center becomes creative hub Emergency Arts, or a former Carl's Jr. across from UNLV is remade as student art studios.

This trash fashion - or trashion, if you will.

Sanitation workers weren't amused, either.

An artist that becomes a magician, making her human canvasses disappear in the background.

Cupcakes, games, balloons and plant potting were among the festivities Saturday at Henderson’s annual Heritage Day Parade and Festival.

This multimedia artist and owner of Skin City Body Painting is known for producing and appearing in "Skin Wars," but Robin Slonina's body of work is complex, often whimsical and always thought-provoking. She opened a new studio at the Arts Factory in January and uses her work to promote local philanthropic and social causes.

For more than a decade, Robin Slonina has worked to establish a respectable arts scene in Las Vegas. Originally from Chicago, Slonina is a star in the world of body painting, known for her extreme artistry and business savvy.

Television's first-ever bodypainting competition show "Skin Wars" has become one of cable's most-watched original series, and thanks to Las Vegas art star Robin Slonina, it starts its Season 3 on GSN on Wednesday. To celebrate, Robin is throwing a free bodypainting party with semi-nude models decorated in a "garden of paradise" theme.

As it enters its third season, the body-painting competition “Skin Wars” has raised the profile of the art form around the world, says Las Vegas artist Robin Slonina, who pulls double duty as a producer and judge on the series.

Robin Slonina has been a fixture on the Vegas Arts scene for a decade since moving to Las Vegas in 2005. At that time, she was a wandering artist, living in her VW camper van and traveling around the country making interactive outdoor sculptures. She eventually settled in Las Vegas after meeting her husband, who is a Cirque performer.

With the success of her Skin City body painting studio, owner Robin Slonina rarely has time to dedicate to her own art. That changes with the opening of her first personal Las Vegas studio on January 9 in the Arts Factory.

iH spoke with Slonina and Skin City Studio assistant Judy Desiderio to discuss their art and participation in the event.

Most reality TV isn’t real—that’s no surprise. So when Robin Slonina, artist and owner of Vegas-based Skin City Body Painting, was approached to produce a show around the art form, it had to pass a litmus test.

“This is about radical self-acceptance,” Slonina says. “All of our bodies are just blank canvases today.”

“To see your art stand up and breathe and move around and change expression—it’s really intriguing as an artist to see your art embodied by a living, breathing human,” Slonina says.

Las Vegas' very own Skin City Body Painting is one of the premier body paint companies in the world, located in the heart of the Vegas Arts District. It is owned and operated by Robin Slonina, who can currently be seen judging alongside RuPaul, Craig Tracy and Rebecca Romijn on the TV show Skin Wars.

GSN’s weekly celebration of the art of body paint has earned a second season. The network has picked up “Skin Wars” for 10 new episodes.