Ingrid Stobbe is a Visual Media Artist, Author, and Educator whose interests engage the incongruence between self-identity and perception while investigating the most effective manner to convey meaning in artistic dialogue. Finding expression in film, paint, or writing, these stories exist at the intersection of genres, asking engagement from viewers as the art preserves the unique properties of included media, commenting on form and its implications in storytelling.

Ingrid’s films have been awarded, screened, and exhibited nationally and internationally, in venues such as the Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture, the Anthology Film Archives, and International Encounters Traverse. Her writing has been published widely, including Mantra Wellness Magazine, Psychology Tomorrow and The Glossary, while select paintings were chosen for “The Art Edit,” Condé Nast’s curated advertorial independent artist showcase in House & Garden, UK. Currently she is in post-production on the upcoming personal film Self – Portrait As Star, an examination of the effects of time and location on adult perceptions of self amidst disability, as well as the essay film Fluorite that explores feelings of singularity within a storm.

Recently, she completed photography on a poetic essay film And We Have Become The Present, investigating the tension of isolation in nonexistent time. The piece grounds itself in George Oppen’s 1965 poem “Leviathan” and is now in post-production. Conversations In Brooklyn, a 2025 experimental documentary, considers how we keep community through art in times of great crisis and begins its festival circuit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art this spring.

Her book The Filmmaker’s Guide to Creatively Embracing Limitations is a democratic and multifaceted approach to realistic cinematic experiences. Co-authored with William Pace, the text was part of the Best of Literary Boston 2023 (Grubstreet), featured author events at Porter Square Books as well as The Coolidge Corner Theatre, and is available through multiple outlets (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023). Her upcoming book, The Camera is You: Medium, Identity, and the Moving Image in Personal Filmmaking, details a specific approach to filmmaking that developed over time in response to exclusionary practices in cinema. It interrogates the complex record of the moving image by examining historical and contemporary instances in which genres, persons, and systems were pushed forward while others were held back (Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2027).

Ingrid is an Associate Professor of Film at Lesley University’s College of Art + Design in Cambridge. She is an accomplished speaker and curatorial collaborator, working with such partners as the LEF Foundation and Coolidge Corner Theatre to create dynamic screening programs and cinematic dialogue series. An advisor to the board of Women in Film & Video New England, Ingrid also serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Film & Video, and previously served on the Marketing Committee for the Metropolitan New York Chapter of the US National Committee for UN Women. She has comprehensive experience designing curricula for the visual arts, and her pedagogy has been internationally recognized – most recently including the 2021 Best-In-Track award at OLC Innovate, and the 2020 University Film and Video Association Award of Teaching Excellence. She additionally advises tenure track and full time academic applications, and regularly speaks at various institutions about media production’s evolving landscape, and its broader social impact.

Please check out some of the things she does when not sharing anecdotes at http://www.ingridstobbe.com