Artist Biography

Pamela Callender is an environmental artist, art curator and educator working in Sarasota, Florida since 1972. Her artistic career has evolved from dance to Eco Art with growing concentration on wildlife habitat restoration.

Pamela is a specialist in native landscape design for west coast Florida and an adjunct professor of Eco Art History at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. A 2019 recipient of the John Ringling Towers Grant earning Fellowship with The Hermitage in Englewood, Fl., she completed a Visual Art degree from Eckerd College in St. Pete, Fl. and Master of Fine Art in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt.

Pamela has served the Sarasota area community with volunteer work as Art Curator for Fogartyville Arts Center, at Osprey Junction Trailhead Sarasota County Park Visitor Center, and Chairperson of the Beautification Committee in Kensington Park Civic Association.

“When one hugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir