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Pamela Kirkham Art Collections

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Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Pamela Kirkham

Pamela Kirkham In 1992, Pam Kirkham started her own business, Kirkham Fine Arts. Through KFA, she has taught art to all ages from pre-school through college level, and has created works that enable the viewer to heal themselves from the inside out. For the last 16 years, her focus has turned away from doing murals and illustration to creating vivid, healing, acrylic paintings that seek to free you from the struggles of daily life, especially for those dealing with a serious illness. By meditating on her inspirational paintings, Pam wants you to escape from what troubles you. The Fight or Flight Series seeks to heal you as you view flying creatures that take you up and away from your struggles. Nature heals and she strives to connect you with it in a positive, spiritual way.

Accomplishments include having been chosen to be an ArtPrize Artist in both 2014 & 2015 in Grand Rapids, Michigan; chosen for the Oklahoma Arts Division’s Artist-in-Residence program; has been awarded 3 Art in Public Places commissioned murals; her work was exhibited at Swiss Art Expo in Zürich, Switzerland in 2019 and 2020; work will be exhibited in Barcelona, Spain in October, 2020; and she has received numerous awards across the United States. Her work is shown and in collections world-wide.


Curriculum Vitae

Pamela Kirkham graduated from Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan. From a class, which originally numbered 150 students, she graduated as 1 of 12 worthy of graduating as illustrators in her class.

The artist has lived in and created murals in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Michigan, where she executed 20 murals in churches, businesses, and homes. Pamela’s designs for painting two, life-size, fiberglass bison were chosen by the Nature Conservancy in Oklahoma to be painted as part of a fundraiser to benefit the survival of Bison. One buffalo was commissioned by the Bank of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City and the other by the Harris Foundation, Oklahoma City.

She recently returned to Michigan where she currently is a full-time professional fine artist working in acrylics on canvas. She participated in the largest art competition in the world, ArtPrize, in 2014 & 2015. Most recently, she displayed her work at the Swiss Art Expo Zürich, Switzerland; The Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL; and The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo and the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo, MI. Pamela’s work can be found in many private art collections world-wide.

Education
Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan – Graduated with major in Illustration
Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Bachelor of Science, Associates Degree in Graphic Design

Group Shows
ArtBox Project Barcelona, Spain 1.0 2021
ArtBox Project Zürich, Switzerland 2.0 at the Swiss Art Expo 2019
ArtBox Project Zürich, Switzerland 1.0 at the Swiss Art Expo 2019
ArtBox Project New York 1.0 at the Stricoff Gallery, New York City 2018
ArtPrize Grand Rapids, Michigan – 2014, 2015

Selected Solo Exhibitions
Consumers Credit Union – Kalamazoo, MI
The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo – Kalamazoo, MI
Webster’s Prime at The Radisson Plaza Hotel – Kalamazoo, MI
Buchanan Art Center – Buchanan, MI
The Artworks Gallery – The Woodlands, TX
Nueces Street Gallery – Austin, TX
West Chaco Gallery – Aztec, NM

Former Galleries (artist now only sells directly to collectors)
Toh-Atin Gallery, Durango, Colorado
Courtyard Gallery, New Buffalo, Michigan

Artist-in-Residence
Oklahoma Arts Council, statewide art educator

Nominated
New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts

Art in Public Places, 1% for the Arts – New Mexico
Purchase: Mural, We Are One, by Bloomfield School District (Charlie Y. Brown Secondary School)
Purchase: Mural, Safety City Mural, by Farmington Police Department
Purchase: Original mixed media piece, Visitation of the Hopi Spirits, by San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico

Awards
Southwest Biological Photographers’ Association Show – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Award: Best of Show
Award: First Place, Natural Science Illustration
Whirpool Art Exhibition – St. Joseph, Michigan
Award: Best of Show
Northwest New Mexico Arts Council Regional Juried Show – Farmington, New Mexico
Award: Second Place, All Media
Riverfest – Farmington, New Mexico
Award: Second Place, Oils and Acrylics

Invited Juror
Totah Festival Fine Art Exhibitions – Farmington, New Mexico (five years)

Invited Artist
The Day Studio Group, San Francisco, California – Murals for renovation of the Enid Symphony Center, Enid, Oklahoma

Studied Under
Robert Divita, Sandra Ringlever, and Curtis Johnson - Grand Rapids, Michigan
Rob Hubble - Santa Fe, New Mexico

Selected Corporate/College Permanent Collections
Berrien County Cancer Services, Inc. – Stevensville, Michigan
Mitchell Energy and Development Corporation – The Woodlands, Texas
The Whitley Company – Houston, Texas
Color Tech – Dallas, Texas
San Juan Regional Medical Center and the Cancer Treatment Center – Farmington, New Mexico
San Juan College – Farmington, New Mexico

Selected Private Collections
Dr. Lynn Hayes, P.H.D. – Austin, Texas
Mrs. Amy Symons Russell– Denver, Colorado
Mr. Bill Marone, - Saint Joseph, Michigan
Mr. & Mrs. Rockford Coscia – Scarsdale, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Otis Halverson – Cheyenne, Wyoming
Mrs. Vern Schroeder – Aiken, Minnesota
Mr. and Mrs. Rick Breon – Iowa City, Iowa
Mr. & Mrs. Marvin B. Steinberg – Baltimore, Maryland

Additional Information
WNIT Television Interview link:
http://www.wnit.org/expmichiana/e/july-17th-2015.html#segment=4

Pecha Kucha means "chit, chat" and presentations are going on all over the world. It originated in Japan and was created to teach people how to make concise, effective, PowerPoint presentations on anything they are passionate about. Parameters for Pecha Kucha are 10 presenters, each showing 20 slides and speaking no more than 20 seconds on each slide. My presentation was about the new series, "Fight or Flight". Detail pictures from larger paintings were shown and it was a really fun night and very educational experience for me.
Here’s a link to my Pecha Kucha presentation:
http://www.pechakucha.org/cities/st-joseph/presentations/fight-or-flight

ArtPrize link:
https://www.artprize.org/pamela-kirkham

Facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/pamela.kirkham1/

Twitter link:
https://twitter.com/PamelaRKirkham