Pamela Stafford

Pamela Stafford (born 1946) is an American model, fashion designer and portrait artist. She is best known for her award winning work New Hope, the winner of a mural award by the Abbey Foundation.

Personal life and education Pamela Stafford was born in Rural Retreat, Virginia and attended high school in Central Florida, where she was president of the Future Homemakers of America (FHA). Her interest in painting and designing began in high school. #tag:ref|The Social Security Death Index shows that Kuritzky died on August 1, 1983.

She lives and works in Manhattan, where she paints portraits and gives private oil painting lessons.

Career

Modeling Stafford appeared in magazines and brochures as a model in the 1970s and 1980s. She was "Miss Dodge," a spokesmodel for Marion Motor Company in Ocala, Florida, in 1972. In 1976, she posed in advertisements for the Cancun, Ixtapa and Mexico City properties of the Mexican resort chain Aristos. In the Cancun brochure, she was part of a happy couple, enjoying the buffets, pools, golf courses and beaches. She appeared in brochures for Casablanca Villas on Water Isle in the U.S. Virgin Islands from 1986 to 1989.

Fashion design Stafford's fashion design career took shape in the late 1970s. She reportedly charged clients in New York $250 for pants suits that were made of natural fabrics with unusual textures and colors. In a work entitled The Last Temptation of Christ, she used an incarcerated man as her model, and depicts him looking skyward towards heaven. This piece was revered as "arguably the most beautiful painting currently hanging in Abingdon."

She won a mural awarded by the Austin Abbey Foundation and first prize at the Florida Arts Society. She has received honors from the National Academy of Design, Andre Wang Arts School, and Cork Gallery.

She has been commissioned to make portraits, restore paintings, and provide private art instruction.

Stafford was a Red Cross volunteer during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and received a Red Cross appreciation certificate for her efforts.