Baker Artist Portfolios

Cathy C. Cook is a Baltimore-based filmmaker, artist, educator, feminist, and eco-activist. In her filmmaking, Cook has developed a collage-style aesthetic that blends Experimental, Documentary, and Narrative genres, producing humorous, surreal, and inviting works that integrate multiple disciplines including 16mm film, video, animation, photography, performance, dance, interactive media, science and poetry. Cook is a recipient of the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and her award-winning work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows including MOMA, The Whitney Museum, PBS and numerous other venues. Her pieces have addressed topical social issues, women's roles, personal chronicles and natures' environmental conditions.  Most recently Cook has been challenging  the conventions of Photo and Video to create site specific multimedia installations. She teaches in the Photo / Cinema area in Visual Arts @ UMBC.