“Longing & Movement” is an exhibition of works by Professor Pam Toll opening in the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Cultural Arts Building (CAB) Art Gallery on Monday, January 13, 2025. The exhibition will run through Thursday February 13, 2025.

A public reception will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2025 from 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Pam Toll will speak briefly about the work before the reception at 5 p.m. in the gallery.

Toll, who joined the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s faculty in 1999, will retire from her teaching career in May 2025.

Gallery hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with extended hours on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The CAB Art Gallery is located in the UNCW Cultural Arts Building, 5270 Randall Drive, Wilmington, NC 28403 - UNCW’s campus on the ground floor of the Cultural Arts Building, near the building's main entrance. Visitors can access the gallery from South College Road or Racine Drive, and parking is available in front of the box office entrance to the building.

For more information visit https://uncw.edu/seahawk-life/arts/venues/cultural-arts-building/

 
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Pam Toll’s “Longing & Movement” is an exhibition of narrative paintings and collage, made in different places and at various times throughout Toll’s career, but exhibited together for the first time.

There are works made after her first residency in Macedonia in 1994, works painted on Bald Head Island in North Carolina, and collage paintings made for an ongoing memoir series, “The Familiar Distance in Going Home”. Also included are new works.

BIO

In 1998, after a profound painting experience at an international artist colony formerly monastery, St. Joakim Osogovoski in Macedonia, Pam Toll, along with two partners, established the No Boundaries International Art Colony, whose mission is to lay aside
national boundaries in favor of cross-cultural exchange. Held on Bald Head Island in North Carolina, hundreds of artists from every continent in the world, except Antarctica, have participated in this artist residency. UNCW’s Studio Art students have been interning for the program since 2002.

UNCW faculty member since 1999, Toll has taught drawing fundamentals, 2D design, senior capstone, figure drawing, painting, and collage.

Other career highlights include leading two UNCW Study Abroad trips: Art Pointe Gumno, Macedonia and Burren College of Art, Ireland. She also led a student painted mural at the Good Shepherd Center in Wilmington, NC in 2017. In 2014 Toll designed ten stained glass windows for B’Nai Temple and, in 2019, doors for the temple Ark in Wilmington, NC. Through the years she made or loaned work for 17 film productions. She was nominated for a United States Artist fellowship in 2009.

Toll's work is represented in various collections including Bljarica Art Collection in Montenegro; Karatay University and Yildiz Technical University in Turkey; Cromarty Arts Trust, Scotland; Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy; Macedonia Museum of Modern Art, Art Pointe Gumno , St. Joakim Osgovoski and Osten Drawing Collection in Macedonia; Noja Cultural Center Collection in Spain; the Art and Art History Department and Randall Library at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington; Cameron Art Museum; Cameron Management; Bald Head Island Limited; along with many private collections in the US and abroad.

Recent exhibitions include:

Solo Exhibition
“Landscape and Memory”, at CFCC’s Wilma Daniels Gallery in Wilmington, NC, 2019.

Group Exhibitions
“Nature and Art”, at Art Point Gumno International Art Colony Exhibition, Sloeshtica, Macedonia 2022
“Water” at Acme Art Studios 2022
“5th Edition of Survival Art Symposium and Exhibition” at Cassoria Art Museum, Naples, Italy 2021
“Pepper” Group Invitational, Macedonian and US artists, Gallery MC, NYC 2019

Toll received her B.A. in Art and English Literature at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and an M.F.A. in painting at East Carolina University.

Her studio is located at Acme Art Studios, a workspace for artists which she co-founded in 1991.