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"I am a speaker and interdisciplinary artist, intertwining my work as a writer, filmmaker, performer, and film installation artist to create new forms of narrative work about Black women and girls and others whose joy, imagination, and inner life are under-explored in American media and popular art. My work conveys intimate moments and memories and the relationship between memory and imagination. I speak and perform on topics related to the arts and humanities, memory and imagination, underrepresented voices, my film and multimedia projects, and my life as an interdisciplinary artist. "I have 30+ years experience as a professional artist and speaker and have addressed audiences for United Way of Central Maryland, Marymount University, University of Manitoba, George Mason University, Busboys and Poets, Black Bottom Film Festival at August Wilson Cultural Center, and more. I am the recipient of a 2021 Baker Artist Award, six Maryland State Arts Council awards, five film festival awards internationally, a Changemaker Challenge Award from Horizon Foundation and United Way of Central Maryland, a NES Artist Residency, a Storyknife Writers Residency, and an Official Citation from the Maryland House of Delegates, among other honors." --Pamela Woolford

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"Powerful stories"

Baltimore Sun Media

"A really powerful presentation... extraordinary... bReathtaking"

Andrew Simonet, writer, choreographer, and founder of Artist U

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"her community spirit is infectious and admirable. .... It takes courage, vision, and unique, vulnerable grace to embrace artistic possibility so openly and with such abiding curiosity and nuance."

Melissa Wyse, art writer and cultural critic

Pamela Woolford featured at the University of Manitoba "Deconstruction of Being" weekend symposium, 2022

sponsored by CR8:BLK, Fractured Atlas, ¡Cinema Paradiso, and Film Fatales

PAMELA WOOLFORD on UP/ROOTED for BLACK WOMEN'S CINEMA WEEK

Pamela Woolford as Bisson Lecturer in the Humanities at Marymount University.

Images of Pamela Woolford presenting at the inaugural Kwanzaa In August: Unboxed and Unbound Films at Anacostia Arts Center in DC.

Pamela Woolford headlined the October 15, 2020, TogetHER Women's Forum session sponsored by United Way of Central Maryland.

An excerpt from Pamela Woolford's 2020 TogetHER Women's Forum presentation. (For more info on the history in this clip, read The Great Land Robbery: the shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms by By Vann R. Newkirk II.

CHANGEMAKER CHALLENGE WINNER FOR HER BIG-IDEA PRESENTATION SPARKING SOCIAL CHANGE

Pamela Woolford presenting at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. She is the winner of a 2019 Changemaker Challenge Award for her big idea sparking social change in Howard County, Maryland. (Music: "Zoot Suit" by OkCello).

Pamela Woolford is the author of more than 100 profile, memoir, fiction, human-interest, and think pieces published in The Baltimore Sun, Poets & Writers Magazine, the NAACP's Crisis Magazine, Harvard University’s Transition, and other publications. Her writings have long been cited in books like Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic by Michelle D. Commander (Duke University Press, 2017), Mapping Alternative Expressions of Blackness in Cinema: A Horizontal Labyrinth of Transgeographical Practices of Identity by Boulou Ebanda de B'béri (Thielmann & Breitinger, 2006), Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture edited by Toyin ‎Falola and Augustine Agwuele (University of Rochester Press, 2009), L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema edited by Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart (University of California Press, 2015), Breaking into Print: Early Stories and Insights into Getting Published edited by DeWitt Henry (Beacon Press, 2000), In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Richard Iton (Oxford University Press, 2010), The Witches Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense by Kara Keeling (Duke University Press, 2007), Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters by Mary Jane Lupton and Lucille Clifton (Praeger, 2006), Shaping the Future of African American Film: Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers by Monica White Ndounou (Rutgers University Press, 2014), Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights by Robert J. Patterson (University of Illinois Press, 2019), In Media Res: Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-first Century by James Braxton Peterson (Bucknell University Press, 2014), Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives by Stella Setka (Thielmann & Breitinger, 2020), and Soul Power: Culture Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left by Cynthia A. Young (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).

AUTHOR, FILMMAKER, STORYTELLER

DISCUSSION LEADER

performing & installation ARTist

Pamela Woolford presenting at the 2019 Black Bottom Film Festival at August Wilson Cultural Center in Pittsburgh. Her film Generation was one of 20 official selections, alongside Idris Elba's directorial debut Yardie and Academy Award nominees If Beale Street Could Talk and Hale County This Morning, This Evening.

Pamela Woolford HAS PRESENTED FOR OR PARTICIPATED IN PANEL/Q-&-A DISCUSSIONS AT:

ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY SALON (hosted by Grace Cavalieri)

ART AS A RESPONSE TO ANTI-BLACKNESS (sponsored by George Mason University and Busboys and Poets)

ARTISTS U SHIFT

BAKER ARTIST LITERARY AWARDS SHOWCASE (sponsored by Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance)

BISSON LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIES at Marymount University

BLACK BOTTOM FILM FESTIVAL at August Wilson Cultural Center

CR8:BLK (Create Black) BLACK WOMEN CINEMA WEEK at Eaton Workshop

CHANGEMAKER CHALLENGE (sponsored by Horizon Foundation and United Way of Central Maryland)

KWANZAA IN AUGUST: UNBOXED & UNBOUND FILMS at Anacostia Arts Center

LITTLE PATUXENT REVIEW READING SERIES

NORTH BEACH AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

DENEE BARR MULTIMEDIA ARTS SHOW at Robinson Nature Center

GOLDEN HEARTS BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT at St. John Baptist Church

TogetHER WOMEN'S FORUM (sponsored by Women United and Untied Way of Central Maryland)

VISIONARY WOMEN, THE JOURNEY: ART ABOUT WOMEN BY WOMEN at Columbia Art Center

WOMEN OF THE LENS FILM DIGITAL BROADCAST FESTIVAL at Close Up Film Centre, London

WOMEN WRITERS OF COLOR BRUNCH (hosted by Marita Golden)

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Pamela Woolford was a featured speaker in the 2019 panel discussion VISIONARY WOMEN, The Journey: Art About Women By Women at Columbia Art Center.

Pamela Woolford presented her film Generation at Women of the Lens Film Digital Broadcast Festival in London, UK, in December 2018.

Art as a Response to Anti-Blackness

Art as a Response to Anti-Blackness was the fall 2020 film-premiere event for Pamela Woolford's limited release of her film Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir. Attended by 1.5 thousand people online, the event had Pamela Woolford speaking with panelists jazz great Bob James, who composed the soundtrack; bestselling author Marita Golden; Black Bottom Film Festival founder Joseph Lewis, and others and was co-presented by Busboys and Poets and the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University.

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