Photo By Amie Akers, A Stitch in Time Photography
Pamela grew up in Lancaster, PA where she began creating on her grandmother’s treadle Singer sewing machine at the age of 10. After finishing her formal education in 1988 (Bachelor of Science from Cairn University and a Master of Arts from Wheaton College), she began making quilts. Since 2002 she has been pursuing quilt making as an art form. Her work has been juried into national shows in the United States and New Zealand, where she lived from 1999 to 2006. Her work has also appeared in several issues of the New Zealand Quilter magazine. She presently lives in Williamston, MI with her husband. She always enjoys when their adult children come home to visit.
On April 25th 2025, Pamela opened Loewen Studio & Gallery, a fiber art gallery in Williamston, Michigan. Visit the website at: loewengallery.com
Pamela works primarily with fabrics she dyes herself, building a nuanced palette of subtle shifts in hue and value. Her compositions grow from a fascination with gardens and the patterns of nature, using free-form flower and leaf shapes that repeat and transform across each quilt. She studied with Nancy Crow, whose approach to quilt making as a contemporary art form profoundly shaped her direction.
Selected exhibitions and awards
2026: Garden Series, solo exhibition, Textile Art Gallery NYC, New York, NY
2025: Garden Series, Loewen Studio & Gallery, Williamston, MI
2023: Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
2019: Quilt National, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH. Garden of Innocence received the Outstanding Machine-Pieced Quilt Award, given by The Crow Timber Frame Barn Art Retreats, owned by Nancy Crow, in Baltimore, Ohio.
2017: Quilt National, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH. Butterfly Garden received the Heartland Award and the Persistence Pays Award, and is in the International Quilt Museum's Quilt National Collection.
2015: Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY. Midnight Garden received an Honorable Mention.
2013: Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY