Samantha Cobb

Samantha was born in Burlington Wisconsin to a military family. Living around the US, and eventually moving to Singapore and traveling extensively overseas, Sam was exposed to a variety of artistic styles and mediums. Always observant, Sam studied the art forms of each region she visited, and combined them in her own personal style.

In an effort to find a ‘legitimate’ career, Sam studied and received a BA in Linguistics. After graduation, she moved back to Singapore to head and develop the curriculum of the International Community School fine arts department. A few years later she moved to Vancouver and began a masters degree in Sociolinguistic Survey and Ethnology, while teaching art at a local gallery art studio.  Realizing that her calling was to the arts, Sam abandoned her studies and moved to Atlanta to be near family.

Since 2003, Samantha has been very active in the film and art world in Atlanta. Working in special creature makeup effects, Sam was instrumental in the beginnings of Toby Sells Creature Effects shop, where she was shop foreman and head sculptor for nearly two years. She had a part in the making of local films such as ‘The Signal’, ‘Bloodcar’, and the amusingly campy ‘Motorhome Massacre’. Now working freelance, Sam sculpts for local shops and collectors, makes custom costumry, and paints extensively.

Samantha has exhibited nationally in Chicago and Atlanta and internationally in Singapore and Bangkok. Currently her work is a fusion of urban graffiti and Chinese line art, merging the east with the west.