September 2007 Guild Meeting Speaker
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Pamela Allen - Art Quilting with Attitude
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Kingston, Ontario
Pamela Allen has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1982) from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Since graduating, she has been lucky to maintain a studio and a full time vocation making art. She began as a painter and has evolved over the years to explore many other media all with the intention of exploring the theme of the child in all of us. Trips to Europe , the desert southwest , and Mexico have all nurtured her penchant for bright colour and "folky" imagery. Another great influence has been her contact with school children and their aesthetic as she participates almost yearly in an Artist in the Schools program funded by the Ontario Arts Council.
Pamela has had group and solo exhibitions in Toronto, Montreal and Kingston
as well as in the US. She has visited elementary schools all over Ontario
as a visiting artist. Pamela has also taught painting and drawing at Queens
University both in the Fine Art department and for the Aboriginal Teachers
Education program at MacArthur College. The latter have taken her through
some amazing adventures on remote First Nations Reserves in the far North
In 2001 Pamela began making art in the fabric medium. She has become a prizewinning
art quilter and has exhibited internationally including the U.S., France and
Japan. She travels extensively in the USA and Canada giving fabric art workshops.
Web Sites about Pamela Allen::
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