 She studied at the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum 1967-1968.Kubota taught at the School of Visual Arts, and was video artist-in residence at Brown University in 1981 and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1973, 1981, 1982, and 1984, and at the Kunst Akademie in Düsseldorf in 1979.She also helped to coordinate the first annual Women's Video Festival at The Kitchen in 1972.