Portia Cobb

Bio

Portia Cobb is an interdisciplinary artist deeply interested in telling stories that reflect the double-consciousness of African American history, identity, memory & forced forgetting.

Her body of work and research have joined these themes to short-form videos, photographic essays, field recordings, ephemeral installation and performance. 

She is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of The Arts: Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres.

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story-inside you.”

—Maya Angelou