Last week the Honorable Governor Kabasu Babu from Congo spoke at Grand Valley State University. After trying to contact him by email, Facebook, and his cell phone, I finally connected with him following his presentation. He graciously accepted my invitation to a private viewing of my 2012 ArtPrize entry Courage Ablaze—highlighting some women and children…
Columns represent strength; they hold something up. The column displaying my painting entitled Valor connects important elements, inviting the viewer to interact with the painting through a 3-D experience. Because of its cylinder form, the column also portrays unity, or continuity. The Valor column, which displays my painting of Toni and her child, represents the…
The Flame Tree Pamela Alderman Multimedia 48×95 inches 2012 The copper tree represents the African Flame Tree, a resilient tree that showcases brilliant red flowers. The charred frames symbolize the family members slaughtered in the African holocaust. Since the beginning of the genocide, an estimated five million people—fathers, mothers, sons, daughters—have been savagely killed. To…
ArtPrize visitors often ask me, “What happens to your artwork after ArtPrize?” The answer, as you can see below, is varied. ArtPrize 2009 Companions Pamela Alderman Watercolor on paper 18×24 inches Following ArtPrize, Companions was jury selected for the 110th Philadelphia Watercolor Society International Exhibition. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Children’s Hospital of Denver…
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. Vincent VanGogh