Pamela Moulton

Prolific collaborator, as both teacher and artist, I try to foster an ethos of generosity and creative exchange through my public engagement work. Making art and exhibiting for over 30 years in places as far away as the National Museum in Albania where I worked alongside orphaned gypsy children, or India where my projects involved recycling lords in the Mumbai slums, these experiences informed my work. I understood the universal need for creative multi-sensory interaction for mind, body, and spirit. When playfulness meets a myriad of materials, magic happens. Today, impassioned by my collaborations with dementia sufferers partnered with University students, I marvel at these elder’s spontaneity and how essential creative and joyful stimulation is essential to the elder’s well-being. My collaborative art-making process engages community through intergenerational workshops inspired by my personal work. Together we create artistic elements that are incorporated into larger installations, becoming shared community works of art. Summers, I am privileged to serve as resident manager of the Hewnoaks Artist Colony, where I cultivate creative relationships and support a community of Artists. (www.pamelamoulton.com)