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Bio | Artist's Statement | Awards | Collaboration | Education | Memberships Biography - Pam GoldenI am a professional artist and educator. My sculpture, large-scale, site-specific art installations and environmental art works have been exhibited both nationally and throughout New England including First Night Boston, the Fuller Art Museum, and the Duxbury Art Complex Museum. My work has been included in several publications and in two books on art and healing. In addition to keeping regular studio hours, I have been the Art Director at the Inly School (formerly The Montessori Community School), a Montessori-based coeducational day school serving 220 students from 15 months to fourteen years, in Scituate, MA since 1998. Artist’s statementStudio SculptureMy artwork tells stories. The sculptures I create in my studio are narrative images that reveal themselves to me as I work on them, as they live in my studio, as they recall other myths and stories that have nurtured and inspired me over the years. I often work with clay because I love the earthy feel of it in my hands, how I can build with it, how it transforms with water, air and fire to become something new. To this creative process I may add the natural treasures - bones, sticks, shells, feathers, rocks and other mixed media that I collect as I walk by the ocean near my home. My work is elemental and I am inspired by the beauty of the natural world. Healing Art
"Owl Firebelly" Interactive Art/Public Art/Environmental ArtI truly believe that viewer participation is vital in public art. I feel that most people want a way “in” to encounter the artwork. When visitors are invited to interact with the sculptures the energy exchange between the viewers and the work is wondrous! Magical! The enthusiasm that people bring to the work infuses it with energy, and creates a connection between the work and its audience. My site-specific sculptures are often related to environmental setting and community interests. This approach allows and encourages people to access the work on a personal level, to make a unique connection with the form, the materials, find a mirror for some part of them selves, connect with the setting, or find some meaning in the symbolism. Mixed Media AssemblagesThe wonderful thing about these assemblage sculptures is how they evolved on their own. Working on assemblage sculptures has become a kind of meditation for me. I find myself intrigued, and work on several pieces at a time. I tinker, add, take away, move things around until they resonate with me. The box/drawer becomes a frame and the whole process is one of transformation, full of surprises. Awards2004Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund (FMF)
Teacher Program 2001International Sculpture Center Outstanding Art Teacher Award Awarded for a sculpture lesson called "My Face-in-the-Box: Life-Mask Assemblage Sculptures" for 7th and 8th Graders. CollaborationJ. Craig Canning, a professional carpenter and husband to Pam Golden. He has collaborated with Pam on several environmental site-specific installations including “Wing Chairs” for the “ParkArts” program in Hyde Park, “Chair for Mother Ann Lee”at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury and “First Night” on Boston Common. Since 1995, Craig and Pam have created an annual outdoor bonfire sculpture for the Attleboro Museum’s Winter Solstice Fire and Ice Festival. back to topEducationPam received a B.A. in Fine Arts in 1976 from Colgate University in Hamilton, NY and an M.A.T. in 1977 from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. MembershipsGallery Artist, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset,
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