Pamela Hill grew up in an Amish area of Illinois where there was a strong tradition of quiltmaking and she learned the craft early. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois and pursued graduate studies at UCLA before she returned to quiltmaking and established her own studio in the Northern California Gold Country in 1976. | |
Articles about her work have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Interior Design, Town and Country and Traditional Home magazines. Her work has been exhibited at major galleries and museums throughout the United States, including the Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art (Temporary Contemporary), Los Angeles; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Her work is included in public and private collections including the American Embassies in Pakistan and Thailand. | |
Since 1982 Pamela has been assisted in the studio by Claudette Apedaile. Claudette started out just volunteering to help her quilting teacher (Pamela!) clean and pack for her first exhibition in Beverly Hills. She ended up staying on and now has surpassed Pamela in some of the construction techniques that Pamela first developed for her quilts. Fortunately, she is still contributing her skills to the ongoing effort by Pamela Hill Quilts studio to create the best constructed functional quilts available. |