How did you get started crafting?
I have had a long career as a performing cellist and teacher. I've given concerts all over the world, worked with great teachers and colleagues, and enjoy following the successes of my students who now play and teach throughout the world themselves. Though my career was in music, I have always been making something, including a life - sized papier-mâché head of an elephant for a social function when I was a high school student.
I make painted wooden beads for art jewelry, sewed 1,000 masks during the first years of Covid, and enjoy making fanciful flowers and floral scenes from Italian crepe paper. I remember my first shoebox full of crayons, pencils, tape and paper which my mother gave me so that I could work along with Captain Kangaroo on television. To this day, the thought of a shoebox full of art materials fills me with excitement.
What inspires your creativity?
It was those floral scenes I created with crepe paper which first led me to working with fiber. I started with needle-felting, which was soon followed with my discovery of the process of Nuno-felting. This is my favorite medium as an artist. When asked how long it takes me to make a silk and wool wrap, my answer is “all my life”.
Pamela Frame is a Rochester native, although she lived in NYC for many years, and is happily married with two very talented adult sons and an idiot dog named “Happy”, whom she adores.
If you're interested in Pamela's work, a few pieces are available to purchase from Handwoven Originals in Santa Fe, NM. You can also see more of her creations on her website, Pamela Frame Arts.
