ABOUT THE ARTIST
Pamela Chatterton-Purdy – Artist
Pamela Chatterton-Purdy received an A.A. from Green Mountain College in 1961, her B.A. from The University of New Hampshire in 1963. She married her husband David Purdy a Methodist Minister, June 7, 1963 and received her M.F.A from The University of Massachusetts in 1966. She has taught art at Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA , Springfield College, Springfield MA, and The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, plus the public schools of Middleboro, MA and Brookline MA. She has taught art for over 30 years.
In 1987, Pamela wrote a book titled BEYOND THE BABYLIFT, A Diary of an Adoption. It was published by Abingdon Press, Nashville TN. The Purdy’s have 4 children and the book focuses on the adoption of the Purdy’s Amerasian child and the struggle to become a family.
In retirement Pamela has created a series called “Icons of the Civil Rights Movement” which has traveled to over 20 Colleges and Universities. In January 2009 the show went to Washington DC for the Inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Pamela’s story “SISTER SALLY LOVED TO DEATH” has been included in an anthology of Cape Cod women writers entitled A SENSE OF PLACE, published by Shank Painter Press, Eastham Ma. (2002)
Post-graduate work: Massachusetts College of Art, Cape Cod Community College, Radcliffe College, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Recently Pamela was introduced at the Boston University School of Theology Annual Lowell lecture by Rev. James Lawson. Hosted by School of Theology on October 26, 2011.
Rev.Dr. David A. Purdy – Author