- pcobb@uwm.edu
- Mitchell Hall B73A
- She / Her
Portia Cobb
- Professor, Film, Video, Animation and New Genres
- Director, Community Media Project
Education
MA, Film, San Francisco State University
BA, Communication, Mills College
Biography
Since the early 1990’s the foundations of my practice in documentary have taken many forms and formats: 16mm film, photography, mixed media installation and performance art.
My interests as an artist and researcher begin with questions leading to self-discovery and an ongoing search for the familiar/unfamiliar (history,
culture, memory, home & identity).
Prominent themes in my research are Return, Seeking, Forced-Forgetting and Re-memory. My interest expands to a practice that investigates histories of dislocation, migration, and resettlement as ongoing challenges that echo across Global communities and shown through experimental time-based expression.
I have developed curriculum for Documentary centered courses, Community Media, Radical Cinemas and faculty led interdisciplinary Study Abroad Courses to London, UK and Brazil.