Baker Artist Portfolios

Cathy C. Cook is a Baltimore based artist, filmmaker, educator, production designer, and eco-activist. Her films and projects have addressed topical social issues, women's roles, personal chronicles and natures' environmental conditions. Her award-winning work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows including MOMA, The Whitney Museum, PBS and numerous other venues. In 2001, Cook was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Recently Cook’s “Cranes in Motion” project took her to the largest migration locations for Sandhill Cranes and Whooping Cranes. Her current film, "They Used To Call Me Baby Eagle' (in-progress) is a short experimental first-person essay film that reveals her fascination and struggles with ocular disorders.  Specific to her filmmaking, Cook has established a collage style process and aesthetic that is a hybrid of Experimental, Documentary and Narrative film genres. Each project outcome is often humorous, surreal and inviting while integrating multi-disciplinary forms including 16mm film, video, animation, photography, performance, dance, interactive media, science and poetry.  She teaches Cinematic Arts at UMBC.