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Portia Cobb, artist and associate professor of film at UWM, concludes her residency<\/a> at Milwaukee’s Lynden Sculpture Garden with a multimedia performance that explores the history and mystery of her Gullah Geechee family and their life on South Carolina’s Yonges Island.<\/p>\n

This video was filmed on location at Lynden Sculpture Garden and Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities.<\/p>\n

Thank you to the staff at Lynden, ‘Cabinet’ artist Fo Wilson, ‘Legacy’ artist Portia Cobb and videographer Maeve Jackson for the use of this footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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