About

ARTIST STATEMENT

I feel the American people shaking, demanding a hearing. Digging into clay helps me work it out on both cultural and spiritual levels. Social issues that pull focus are man’s love of weapons, women’s erasure from histories, the current instability of our world, and how people still rise, even after being erased.

My sculpture is frequently cartoon-inspired, having been an animator, and from a generation that learned how to identify/behave through cartoons, synthesizing those stories and archetypes (considering the historic writers’ beliefs). The work frequently reveals itself as it progresses. Juxtaposing the surreal with the mundane, mixing in some subtle art history references, playing with sinister, and poking the so-called arbiters of what is of value in our society while rooting for more diverse perspectives to grab the mic.

Whether it’s personal or political, my interest is in visual encounter to challenge our relationships with one another and what we value.

EDUCATION

MFA in Film Animation. California Institute of Arts, Valencia, CA, 1977.

BFA in Film Animation. Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, 1975. (Includes one year at California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA.)

•• Additional ceramic education from Northern Clay Center and the University of Minnesota

E X H I B I T I O N S

FILM

1976 Documentary LAZY BILL LUCAS accepted into the Library of Congress and 2015 into the Minnesota Historical Society

1980 Sinking Creek Film Festival for RITUAL

1980 Cine Golden Eagle for RITUAL

1981 Mallorca International Film Festival RITUAL

••• Currently playing award-winning experimental film (RITUAL, 1979) in the Mediatheque at the Walker Art Center

2D WORK  |  Digital, Painting, and Photographic

1994 Kathryn Nash Gallery, group show TRANSFORMATIONS

1995 Minnetonka Center for the Arts Juried Show, 1st place mixed media

1996 Espresso Royale, Vision Quest Exhibit

1996 Minnetonka Arts Center Juried Show,

1996 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit

1996 AIGA Illustrator’s show, Dayton’s 12th floor gallery

1996 Lutheran Brotherhood Gallery, Breast Cancer Awareness exhibit

1997 pArts Photographic Gallery, Secrets: Concealed from View, WPVA group show

1997 pArts Photographic Gallery, Vision Quest group show

1997 Qu’y a-t-il d’humain dans l’homme, Strasbourg, France. Collaboration with Dorit Cypis and Norit Masson-Sekine

1997 Minnetonka Center for the Arts juried show Juror’s selection photography

1997 Washington Gallery, Duluth,MN Nationally juried show “Up Against a Wall”

1997 Minnetonka Center for the Arts faculty show

1999 Zanders Gallery, solo show

2000-2005 Art A Whirl, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis

2007 Rosalux Gallery, Pamela Belding (painting and some ceramic sculpture)

2009 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, First place, painting

2009 Rosalux Gallery, Pamela Belding (painting and ceramics)

CERAMICS

2019 Northern Clay Center, Members Show, Minneapolis, MN

2022 Solo Exhibit, The Guild, Minneapolis, MN

2022 Artistry Members show, Bloomington, MN

2022 Regis Center at the University of Minnesota, Fall group show

2022 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, sculpture Honorable mention, sculpture

2023 Art A Whirl, Grain Belt Bottling House

2023 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, sculpture First place, sculpture, plus Hopkins Center for the Arts award

2024 American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Fahrenheit 2024

2024 Northern Clay Center, Members Show, Minneapolis, MN

2024 Art A Whirl, Grain Belt Bottling House

2025 Arts North International, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN Award of Excellence

2025 Art A Whirl, Grain Belt Bottling House

Info

Grain Belt Bottling House

79 Thirteenth Avenue NE, Studio 209
Minneapolis, MN 55413

pam(at)pamelabelding(dot)com

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