4 MARYLAND STATE ARTS COUNCIL AWARDS
BAKER ARTIST AWARD
CHANGEMAKER CHALLENGE AWARD
5 FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS & 12 Official Selections
Changemaker Challenge Award Winners
The aSHE Fund Congratulates 2022 Micro-Grant Recipient Pamela Woolford.
Maryland House of Delegates Official Citation
Long Reach Village Center Resident Artist from Howard County Arts Council and Howard County Government (since 2020)
four Baker Artist Award honors from Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance: Mary Sawyers Baker Prize in interdisciplinary arts (2022), Baker Artist Award in interdisciplinary arts (2021), finalist in interdisciplinary arts (2024), and finalist in literary arts (2020)
five Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grants (2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, & 2019)
Maryland State Arts Council Professional Development Opportunity Grant (2024)
Maryland State Arts Council Grants for Artists grantee (2024)
Boston Writers of Color Literary Support Stipend from GrubStreet (2024)
Inaugural Residency (2nd cohort), The Last Resort Artist Retreat from Charm City Cultural Cultivation (2024)
James Weldon Johnson Fellowship in the Arts, Aritst-In-Residence at Bard College at Simon's Rock from The James Weldon Johnson Foundation (2023)
Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award for "notable artistic achievement" (2022)
aSHE Fund Micro-Grant (2022)
Marymount University Bisson Lecturer in the Humanities (2020)
Inaugural Residency (postponed) Storyknife Writers Residency, Homer, Alaska (2020)
She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) Contest finalist (2019) and semifinalist (2020)
Changemaker Challenge Award from United Way of Central Maryland and Horizon Foundation (2019)
NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland (2019)
Black Continental Independent Movie Award for Originality (2019) and nominee for Best Short Film (2019)
CR8:BLK (Create Black) Black Women Cinema Week Audience Choice Award (2019)
North Beach American Film Festival Jury Award for Best Experimental Film, Animation Film, or Music Video (2018)
Canada Shorts Award of Commendation (2018)
Experimental Forum Honorable Mention Award for "vision and the film's unique contribution to cinema" (2018)
two Pushcart Prize nominations, with one from Pushcart Prize contributing editor Mark Wisniewski (2018)
Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize shortlist (2017) and long list (2016)
Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards finalist for creative nonfiction (2016)
Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Contest semifinalist at Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts (2014)
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for screenwriting
Pamela Woolford after receiving the Black Continental Independent Movie Award for Originality for Generation.
A clip with Pamela Woolford, 2021 Baker Artist Award winner in interdisciplinary arts, from the Baker Artist Awards Special on PBS's Maryland Public Television
