Thank you to the Office of Sustainability Practices of Grand Valley State University for recognizing my interactive healing art with sex-trafficking. It’s a real honor as an artist and community member to receive the Sustainability Champion Award. Thank you so very much! This award also goes to all my volunteers—my collaborators—who work so hard to…
The Scarlet Cord: Healing for Sex-trafficked Children is now showing at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Students and community members are invited to interact with the work by tying a scarlet cord. The scarlet cords are a reminder that children are enslaved in human trafficking all around the world—and even in places like Grand…
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Pamela creates custom interactive exhibits. To find out more information for your next event, contact the artist. Above: An interactive healing exhibit especially designed for Manasseh Project’s Stop This Traffic conference. Below: This past spring, another interactive installation showcased at Grand Valley State University’s Frederik Meijer Honors College.
After the work first debuted at ArtPrize 2014, The Scarlet Cord Pop-up Galleries, mini installations, were created to expand the original mission: freedom and healing for boys and girls trafficked worldwide.
Responding to The Scarlet Cord work, Judge Patricia Gardner said, “Today kids are producing their own pornography.” Unfortunately, it’s true. One of The Scarlet Cord works called Targeted—portraying a child, a bull’s eye, and a roll of film—pictures how childhood innocence is destroyed through erotic material. “Sexting” is sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages,…