Pamela Bower-Basso
Pamela Bower-Basso 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 for undergraduates and graduate students leading to licensure for teaching art at the elementary and secondary school levels. Currently, she teaches Field Studies in Art PreK-8 and 5-12, and Art Education Curriculum PreK-8 and 5-12. 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 teaching licensure for Visual Art (PK-12) in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. 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, two summers at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 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.

Artwork:

Title: Financing Woes.
Mixed media on wood. 7"x7"x2".
Pamela Bower-Basso. 2009.

Exhibitions:

2012

• Written and Rendered: Connecting Word and Image in Contemporary Art. Brickbottom Gallery. Somerville, MA
• 2D Small Works Salon. Maud Morgan Arts. Chandler Gallery. Cambridge, MA

2011

• Artists Teaching in Massachusetts: MAEA Summer Exhibition. Massachusetts Transportation Building. Boston, MA

2005

• A Couple of Artists: Two-person Show, James Library & Center for the Arts, Norwell, MA

2004

• Small Works 2004, The Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.
• Fifty Towns, Fifty Years, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.

2003

• Homemade, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.

2002

• Museum of Fine Arts Staff Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

2001

• RISD on the Road Printmaking and Photography Exhibit, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. (Traveling Exhibition)
• New England Photographers ‘01, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.

2000

• RISD on the Road Printmaking and Photography Exhibit, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. (Traveling Exhibition)
• 2nd Annual Small Works Exhibition, The Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.
• Commencement 2000 Alumni Art Show, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI.
• Celebrating the Arts in the Community, Millennial Exhibition of Community Art Centers, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston.

1999

• December Exhibition and Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
• The Other Side: Recent Work by South Shore Art Center Faculty Artists, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.

1998

• Book Arts and Computer Imaging, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape CodCommunity College, West Barnstable, MA.
• New Frontiers in Book Art: Artists’ Books in New England, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA.
• White, Black and Shades of Gray, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Juror’s Award: Honorable Mention.

1997

• December Exhibition and Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
• Women’s Work, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.
• Family Portraits, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI

1996

• December Exhibition and Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
• Open Studios, Brickbottom Artists Building, Somerville, MA.
• Transforming Tradition, National Juried Exhibition, Women’s Caucus for Art, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
• Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Faculty Drawing Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1995

• December Exhibition and Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
• Open Studios, Brickbottom Artists Building, Somerville, MA.
• RISD Alumni 12 x 12 Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode IslandSchool of Design, Providence, RI.
• Is This Post Modernism?, Invitational Exhibition of Work by Museum School Faculty, The Copley Society, Boston, MA.

1994

• (Jan) Baker's Dozen: Artist Book Show, McKillop Gallery, SalveRegina University, Newport, RI.
• Open Studios, Brickbottom Artists Building, Somerville, MA.
• RISD Alumni 12 x 12 Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
• Woman, Women's Caucus for Art, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
• Women in the 90's, Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA.

1993

• Visual Contact, Women's Caucus for Art, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
• Open Studios, Brickbottom Artists Building, Somerville, MA.
• Animal Imagery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA.
• Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA.

1991

• Art Made from Recycled Materials, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Juror’s Award: Honorable Mention.
• Sculpture On and Off the Wall, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA.
• Abstraction, Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA.

1990

• December Exhibition and Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Reviews:
4/2000 RISD Views - Alumni Magazine, RISD on the Road, Kevin Jankowski (Art reproduction)
4/24/97 Bay Windows, Woman’s Lot --or not, Shawn Hill (Review)
4/11/97 Boston Herald, The Woman Artist, Joanne Silver (Review and art reproduction)
4/10/97 Cambridge Chronicle/ Somerville Journal, Working Women, Nan Stalnaker (Review)
9/19/96 Boston Globe Calendar Magazine, The Studio System, Cate McQuaid (Photo of the artist in her studio by Pam Berry)