Pamela Stafford

Background

Pamela was born in Rural Retreat, Virginia and attended high school in Central Florida, where she was president of the Future Homemakers of America (Federal Housing Administration).

Education

Doctor Kuritzky graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of California, Los Angeles, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa in the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine.

Career

Her interest in painting and designing began in high school. Stafford moved to Manhattan in the 1970s and has resided there for at least part of the year ever since. He died of cancer at age 29 at Mountain.

Sinai Hospital on August 1, 1983, just a year after the couple"s marriage.

Due to the mishandling of his body, using a casket too small for her husband"s body, Pamela sued Riverside Chapel, a New York City funeral home, for $10 million. She lives and works in Manhattan, where she paints portraits and gives private oil painting lessons.

Modeling

Pamela appeared in magazines and brochures as a model in the 1970s and 1980s. She was "Mission Dodge," a spokesmodel for Marion Motor Company in Ocala, Florida in 1972.

In 1976, she posed in advertisements for the Cancun, Ixtapa and Mexico City properties of the Mexican resort chain Aristos.

In the Cancun brochure, she was part of a happy couple, enjoying the buffets, pools, golf courses and beaches. She was in brochures for Casablanca Villas on Water Isle in the United States. Virgin Islands from 1986 to 1989. Fashion design

Pamela’s fashion design career took shape in the late 1970s when she reportedly charged clients in New York $250 for pants suits that were made of natural fabrics with unusual textures and colors.

Stafford of New York was her label.

Art

Desiring to focus her attention on art, Stafford studied drawing, painting and sculpting at the Art Student"s League and the National Academy of Design, where she received a three-year certificate. She has painted and studied in Maudon, France at the Centre d"Etude Russes Saint-George (Center for Russian Icons) and at the Ecole des Baux Arts in Paris.

Stafford made the "How to Paint the Portrait" video in 1999. This piece was revered as "arguably the most beautiful painting currently hanging in Abingdon."

She has been commissioned to make portraits, restore paintings, and provide private art instruction.

Realizing that she was in a position to give back to the community, Pamela took great interest in charitable organizations.

She was a guest speaker for amfAR, The Foundation for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Research at the Atrium Club and the New York Women's Forum, where she held a reception which raised money for the foundation. Pamela was a Red Cross volunteer during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and received a Red Cross appreciation certificate for her efforts.

Achievements

• She is best known for her award winning work “New Hope,” the winner of a mural award by the Abbey Foundation. She won a mural awarded by the Austin Abbey Foundation and first prize at the Florida Arts Society and has received honors from the National Academy of Design, Andre Wang Arts School, and Cork Gallery.

Politics

Her most popular work, “New Hope,” was inspired by the events of 9/11, and has been received with rave reviews from art critics, who have said “there is a harmony of patriotism, religion and beauty done in a dignified, calm manner.” In a work entitled “The Last Temptation of Christ,” she uses an incarcerated man as her model, and depicts him looking skyward towards heaven.