Pam Patterson
Scholar, Artist
Art is one way a life becomes legible. Through form, it holds what experience alone cannot fully say.
About the Artist
Pam Patterson has, for over 50 years, focused her research, performance, visual work, curating, and teaching on disability and women’s studies and art education. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous journals, magazines, books, and exhibition catalogues.
She is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Art, OCAD U, where she leads Art and Design Education Lab, Creative Research Inclusive Practices (CRIP) Lab, and directs 113Research Projects Gallery.
As a queer disability performance and visual artist, Patterson has exhibited and performed across Canada and internationally solo, and in collaboration. A current collective writing project, for publication in Canadian Art Teacher and as exhibition at Tangled Arts + Disability, plays in/with the intersections between art making, art teaching and disability.
