We are continuing our series called Art and Change, which will focus on how the visual art world to helping to change society, whether on the community level or internationally.

Today’s topic is How Society Views Women Visual Artists and our guest is Pamela Tanner Boll.

Pamela Tanner Boll is an artist, a writer, a filmmaker, and an activist. Pam brought her activism and her art closer together by co-executive producing the Academy award-winning film, “Born into Brothels: The Kids of Calcutta’s Red Light District.” She is currently producing the following film projects: “Global Moms” with director Justine Shapiro (of “Promises”); “In a Dream” (winner of the Emerging Visions Audience Award at SXSW and short listed for the 2009 Academy Awards); and “Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence” with Tiffany Shlain, director of “The Tribe”.

“Who Does She Think She Is?”, Pam’s directorial debut, is a feature-length documentary which follows the stories of five creative and inspiring women who are able to weave their lives as artists—singers, painters, sculptors, printmakers—with their lives as mothers. The film has screened in over 100 theaters and universities across the US and Canada and it has won Best Documentary in the Savannah Film Festival, Baltimore Women’s Film Festival, Old Colony Film Festival and Tupelo Film Festival .

Pamela grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia then graduated from Middlebury College. She completed graduate studies and has an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Women and Creativity from Lesley University. She and her husband live in Massachusetts where they have raised their three sons.

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