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Pop Up: Sustaining Activism with Portia Cobb

March 3, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Photo caption: Portia Cobb, associate film professor in the Peck School of the Arts, transported visitors back to the 1900s with her “Rooted: The Storied Land, Memory, and Belonging” project. (UWM Photo/Pete Amland) Featured in 2019 UWM Research Report

Portia Cobb. Interdisciplinary Art, Research, Collaboration & Production

Dive into a conversation about sustaining personal values and aligning them with community action. Portia will share experiences, stories and advice on how a young leader can navigate community activism and make a sustainable change.

Portia Cobb is a video artist and producer of short experimental documentary whose videos and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Although trained as a filmmaker, she began using video because of its accessibility and immediacy in the field. Her work often investigates the politics of place and identity. Through her continuing documentation of urban and rural communities in America and West Africa, she draws upon memory and history “as a means of confronting forced movement and forgetting.” Portia serves as director of the Community Media Project, an arts outreach program of the Film, Video, Animation and New Genres Department, teaching video production workshops for at-risk teens and media literacy for high school teachers. She also curates and administers two public screening programs: “Africa Beyond,” and the “Producers’ Forum.” Currently, she is teaching courses in Ethnographic Video Production and Radical Black Film.

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March 3, 2021
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Virtual