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PAMELA HARRIS LAWTON

PAMELA HARRIS LAWTON

PAMELA HARRIS LAWTON

PRINTMAKER, ACTIVIST, AND PROFESSOR

*Critical Inquiry and Creative Collaboration: Building Communities through Printmaking

By discussing our own struggles as artists with our students, we help them realize that fear is a natural and healthy part of art-based critical inquiry. In addition, these discussions demonstrate that artists at every level of expertise experience struggle and doubt. Thus, the process of artmaking and reflexivity share a correlative relationship with teaching and learning.

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Ms. Lawton’s artwork, primarily prints, artists’ books, and mixed media pieces, is grounded in social practice, seeking to illuminate contemporary issues, cultural traditions, and the stories of people affected by them.  She takes inspiration from her family history and the artist Elizabeth Catlett. She coined the term artstories to describe the process of combining written and visual narratives into artworks representative of a multiplicity of generational voices on issues related to coming of age within a multicultural society.

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Her fascination with narrative forms of expression is one reason artists’ books and printmaking are her preferred mediums of creative expression. She mixes relief printmaking, letterpress, image and text transfers, gelatin prints, collage, found objects, and decorative paper techniques. Materials often drive her approach to a given concept. Currently, she is involved with several artist's book projects--Retablos of Resistance is part of a collaborative artists' book project. It is inspired by Mexican retablos and ex-votos small, book-sized altars and paintings on tin depicting a tragedy or someone with a grave illness/injury. The pieces are inscribed with a description of the tragic event and prayers of thanks for divine intervention.  Reflective of the events of 2020, hope and trauma is the dichotomous focus of the book. Resistance has been the key to surviving and thriving the continuous cycle of injustice, hardship, disease, and devastation experienced by marginalized peoples. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PAMELA HARRIS LAWTON:

*Critical Inquiry and Creative Collaboration: Building Communities through Printmaking January 2018: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326953724_Critical_Inquiry_and_Creative_Collaboration_Building_Communities_through_Printmaking/link/5c9c9ece92851cf0ae9c9779/download

Cultivating Community and Transformation Through Creative Collaboration March 1, 2016 by Pamela Harris: Lawtonhttps://www.radicalactions.com/pamela-lawton

PAMELA HARRIS LAWTON
PAMELA HARRIS LAWTON

Pamela Harris Lawton, MFA, EdDCTA

Florence Gaskins Harper Endowed Chair in Art Education

Maryland Institute College of Art

 

Dr. Lawton’s scholarship and teaching revolve around visual narrative and intergenerational arts learning in BIPOC community settings. Her artwork is grounded in social practice, seeking to illuminate contemporary issues, cultural traditions, and the stories of people impacted by them. 

Lawton earned a BA degree in Studio Art and Sociology, University of Virginia; an MFA in Printmaking, Howard University; and an EdDCTA (Doctor of Education in the College Teaching of Art) from Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Honors include a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Edinburgh, associate artist at the Tate Exchange in London, and artist residencies in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD.  

In addition to numerous publications and exhibitions, Lawton’s artworks are in the following collections: National Museum of Women in the Arts artists’ books collection; Tate Britain Library artists’ books collection; Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh; Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell Library Special Collection of Artist’s Books; the College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Teachers College, Columbia University; Morgan State University; Georgetown University; Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center; Washington, D.C. Superior Court; and the Eugene E. Myers Charitable Unitrust.

 

MONIQUE Y. WELLS

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