How does one create and sustain a professional career as an artist, while maintaining a concern for social justice and the issues facing our world?

Pam Ingalls has built her career doing both. In her beautiful portraits and interior scenes, Pam elevates the ordinary, whether it is school teachers in the Vashon system, tenement residents in New York City, street people, members of our local LGBTQ community, or a simple tea cup.

She captures light as it as it falls on her subjects or shines through their eyes.

Raised in Spokane, Washington, Pan was first inspired by her parents, artists Richard and Marjorie Ingalls. She studied art at the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy and earned an art degree from the art department that her father began at Gonzaga University in Spokane. After exploring a few side paths—among them, pursuing social justice aims and building a house—Pam returned to her true passion under the mentorship of Russian Impressionist, Ron Lukas – a protogé of Sergei Bongart.

Her art has been often displayed on Vashon, often at The Hardware Store or, most recently, at Dig Deep.

She has been running weeklong fall painting retreats in Tuscany, Italy. Read more here: https://www.pamingalls.com/workshop/23223/oil-painting-workshop-in-tuscany-italy

Or contact Susan McCabe for details: susanmccabe8848@gmail.com

Visit Pam’s beautiful website: https://www.pamingalls.com/