Pamela Rojas

Muralist/Visual Artist
pamelaarojas@yahoo.com
Studio: 107 King St. W, Kitchener, Ontario
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Bio

Pamela Rojas was born in Santiago, Chile. She moved in 1995 to Spain and she studied in the prestigious ceramic school Della Robbia in Seville, where she finished the specialty of sculpture and modeling in ceramic. In 1996 she started to be the muralist assistant of the Spanish muralist Ximena Ahumada de Avila and for a few years they painted murals around the city with a group of women in need of social support and community integration. Pamela also worked closely with local painters and ceramists, participating in collective exhibitions.

In 1999 Pamela moved to the USA and started to be an active member in the Arlington Lee community art center in Washington DC, she was the artist assistant of ceramist Alfredo Ratinoff in the creation of the ceramic mural for the Columbia library in Arlington. She moved for 3 years to Louisville, Kentucky, where she worked in the Latin community centre as an artist resident, creating an art therapy group for mothers and children under domestic violence.

Pamela moved to Canada in 2005 and she is an active artist member in the community. She has painted three murals in partnership with Neruda productions celebrating the International Women’s day. Her last work was to design and paint an outdoor mural for KW Multicultural Centre in downtown Kitchener in September 2010. Now she has her studio in Kitchener where she continuously creates, paints and develops new fusion artwork between her two passions: ceramic and painting.