Icons of the Civil Rights Movement exhibit 

Pamela Chatterton-Purdy’s first job was in 1963, as art editor at Ebony magazine (one of two white employees out of 150), where she was responsible for designing visual representations of such events as the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Her belief in equality extends to the multiracial family she formed with husband David Purdy and their two biological and two adopted children.

Pamela received her B.A. from The University of New Hampshire and her M.F.A. from The University of Massachusetts. She has taught art at Bay Path College, Longmeadow, Ma. , Springfield College, and The University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has taught from kindergarten through college and was an Art Specialist at the RunkleSchool in Brookline, Ma.

In 1975, Pamela wrote a book titled BEYOND THE BABYLIFT, A Diary of an Adoption. It was published by Abingdon Press, Nashville TN. The Purdy’s have 4 children and the book focuses on the adoption of the Purdy’s Amerasian child and the struggle to become a family.

Pamela’s story “SISTER SALLY LOVED TO DEATH” has been included in an anthology of Cape Cod women writers entitled A SENSE OF PLACE, published by Shank Painter Press, Eastham Ma. (2002)

Post-graduate work: Massachusetts College of Art, Cape Cod Community College, Radcliffe College, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.