Leah Sobsey is an artist and educator.

She was raised in Chapel Hill and Durham North Carolina. She received her BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Guilford College in 1995 and a Masters of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums and is held in private and public collection across the country.

Sobsey has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Maine Photographic Workshops and currently teaches at the Center for Documentary studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina Greensboro. In the last two years she was awarded the Emerging Artist Grant from the Durham Arts Council and the Orange County Artists Grant to work specifically on public art projects with her collaborator Lynn Bregman Blass. She is currently working on a public/community art project with Habitat for Humanity of Durham in celebration of their 25th Anniversary.

Sobsey works in photography (both traditional and digital) as well as mixed media installations. Her work explores archiving and the notion of “collections” as they relate to personal and public identities.


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