An Evening with Artist Pam Tarbell - Artist Reception

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Tarbell is a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design and a United States Art Embassy Artist. She exhibits nationally, and in 2023 had a sol exhibit at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. In 2024, she was commissioned to paint the awards for the New Hampshire Committee for the Arts Gala Award’s Celebration and continues her active exhibition
schedule with groups and solo exhibitions. Tarbell has served on numerous boards and committees advocating for the arts in New Hampshire. In 2015, she received an “Outstanding
Woman in Business Award” from NH Business Magazine, as director of the Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden for twenty-two years. Tarbell enjoys painting bright, complicated compositions, hoping that the viewer will always continue to find interesting elements in her paintings.

Tarbell grew up in Rhode Island and was never far from Narragansett Bay. Her father owned a vintage wooden boat that we cruised from Cape Cod to Block Island. In 1961, she crewed for Chuck Paine, and his twin brother, Art, for the Sears (Junior) Sailing Rhode Island Championship. During college Tarbell ran two sailing programs teaching elementary students basic sailing skills while also sailing in numerous college races.