Pamela’s live painting during the Arts in Ada festival is featured on WZZM13 and mLive. The 18 x 24 inch watercolor painting created in front of a live audience is now part of the permanent Ada Township art collection. Photo credit: WZZM13 See feature on WZZM13… See feature on mLive… Photo credit: Arts in Ada…
This work was painted with my hands. I wore surgical gloves for the art making process. Waterscape, Pamela Alderman, Oil on canvas, 40 x 16 inches, 2016
Healing in Arts successfully creates community with a new healing paradigm for art making in a world where rapid cultural fragmentation alienates us. A superficial world where people ricochet from one activity to the next. A cyber culture where we rack up 5,847 synthetic Facebook friends. A culture where we spend less and less real…
Exciting news! Wing and a Prayer, my ArtPrize 2013 installation, joined the permanent collection at the Hope Network Autism Center. For ArtPrize 2013, I displayed enlarged giclée reproductions of the Wing and a Prayer paintings in the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel; these reproductions were added to the permanent collection at D.A. Blogett and St Johns…
Art is to console those who are broken by life. Van Gogh Healing in Arts is about caring for people. Brokenness is universal, part of our human condition. Whether individuals are experiencing distress from physical, mental, or emotional issues, art touches deep places within the human spirit. In 2011, during the Braving the Wind installation,…
A year ago when Jim Waring, the vice mayor of Phoenix, spoke at The Scarlet Cord Exhibit opening during the 2015 Super Bowl, he had a message for the buyers of sex: “We are coming after you.” Listening to the vice mayor, I felt like I was on the set of a Batman movie. According…