Pamela McAdoo has been drawing and painting all her life. Growing up in farmland an hour from New York City allowed her to experience the riches of both rural and urban environments. She studied art in Florence, Italy, for a year before completing an undergraduate degree in Fine Art at Antioch College. In 1995, she completed a Masters in Illustration at Syracuse University and was awarded an MFA by the University of Hartford in 2007.

She has taught art classes for a variety of ages: mixed media, book making, and printing for 3- to 5-year-olds; drawing and painting, printing, mural projects, collage, sculpture, and mixed media for ages 5 to 15; and drawing, oil painting, and watercolor classes for adults. Since 2001, she has taught drawing, painting, and design classes at Sierra College’s Truckee campus in California.

Her award-winning work has been shown in California and Nevada, both in group and one-person shows. She is actively involved in a critique group, a figure drawing studio group, and a bookarts group, and is a member of Sierra Watercolor Society. As member of the Truckee Public Arts Commission, she regularly curates shows of local and themed work in two and three dimensions.

Pamela’s passion for travel has taken her to South and Central America, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Nepal, and Europe. Her strong interest in all the arts has led to experience in other disciplines: she has danced professionally with a modern dance company based in Reno, NV; she has designed and built two houses; and for 10 years she wrote a weekly newspaper column on the Truckee Public Library. She currently works in pencil, charcoal, oil paint, and watercolor at her studio in Truckee, where she has made a home for the past 23 years.