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 Pamela
Bower is a working artist and part-time faculty member in art education
at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Since 1990 Pam has been teaching courses in Art Education; currently
she teaches Art Education Foundation PreK-9, Field Studies PreK-9,
and Art Education Curriculum PreK-9.Pam earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1977 and received a Master of Arts in Teaching degree for Art education from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978. She holds visual arts teaching certificates in Rhode Island and Massachusetts for grades Pre-K-12. Her teaching experience includes twelve years as art specialist at Belmont Day School, ten years as instructor of classes and summer programs at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and art teacher at a public junior high school in Arlington, Massachusetts. Pam has also taught courses for adults and children at a number of art centers in the Boston area, most recently at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Massachusetts. In her most recent art work Pam incorporates aspects of collage, painting, and mixed media. Figurative imagery is combined with abstract symbols and shapes to explore contemporary and historic issues often with a focus on women. Her most recent collages and artist's books relate to her personal life-family relationships, pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood. She has exhibited her two and three- dimensional mixed media pieces widely in the New England area and in selected group exhibitions in other parts of the country. |