Celebrating Our Hometown Heroes
ArtPrize Seven (2015): Hometown Hero is being privately shown this week, and a select group of veterans will have the opportunity to sign an additional panel that has been added to the work.
ArtPrize Seven (2015): Hometown Hero is being privately shown this week, and a select group of veterans will have the opportunity to sign an additional panel that has been added to the work.
For a limited time, hand painted and signed acrylic paintings on Plexiglas commemorating Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind can be special ordered from our Gallery and Store. “Hand painted” is to be taken quite literally too. Pamela paints these original paintings with her hands wearing surgical gloves. Visit our Gallery and Store…
Pamela will be presenting The Scarlet Cord: Healing for Sex Trafficked Children at the Kent County Courthouse to help educate about commercial sex trafficking—called modern day slavery. Violated “Are you the artist?” the young woman asked from the distance of fifteen feet. But before I had a chance to move within normal conversation range, her…
In 2006, while attending the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College, I met—would you believe?—Makoto Fujimura. In his book signing line, I showed him my out-of-date Xerox portfolio. Mako kindly leafed through the poorly printed images and said something that changed my paradigm: “Your art speaks of healing.” Within five minutes, Mako named…
We are so excited. ArtPrize Eight visitors voted Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind into the Top 25 Time-Based! Thousands have interacted with our anti-bullying entry Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. 100,000 ribbons have been tied onto the artwork to illustrate solidarity in the movement to eliminate bullying. By…
Thank you to the thousands of ArtPrize visitors for helping us to successfully complete our eight years of ArtPrize. It has been an amazing journey. I would like to acknowledge and thank over fifty volunteers—plus the Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore. You did a fabulous job serving the ArtPrize guests and showing compassion.…