As a veteran wife and military mom, I designed a responsive piece called Yellow Ribbon, in partnership with Kent County Veterans Services, to honor our veterans. But this year, my expanding ArtPrize role included coaching twenty-one veterans in creating their own ArtPrize entries at Veterans Memorial Park. Each of these ArtPrize entries tells the veteran’s…
The initial concept for Yellow Ribbon took root, in partnership with Kent County Veterans Services, as we set our sights on ArtPrize 2020. Over the next few months, this community-based work involved ten veteran art workshops across West Michigan. We initially planned six workshops, but the interest level kept growing; veterans and their families felt…
Healing in Arts 2021 Through my art, I’m on a healing journey with the audience. Art provides another way to resolve our inner conflicts. My work—as an artist without borders—extends outside the usual boundary lines of working through a gallery or an agent, as I create hands-on projects that focus on creative care. Somehow, God…
The catalytic response from visitors surrounding my ArtPrize work caught the attention of the internationally known artist Makoto Fujimura. In 2014, Mako wrote, “Pamela Alderman’s installation The Scarlet Cord at the Ford Presidential Museum is attracting thousands. Her work of paintings combined with participatory, Yoko Ono-like installations hit home, and the lines for her exhibit…
While preparing for ArtPrize 2020, Pamela will lead art workshops with Kent County Veterans Services. These workshops will be sponsored by various West Michigan veteran organizations listed below. At the workshops, veterans and their families will sponge-paint special metallic paper, which the artist will use to fashion the ArtPrize work. A special collection of eight…
We are honored to announce that Color Me Orange—Color Me Kind has found a permanent home at the newly renovated Montessori School in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The school entry wall was reinforced to house the 140 pound ArtPrize work. This fall, the students participated in one of our Healing in Arts workshops and created their own…