Pamela Chatterton-Purdy received her B.A. from The University of New Hampshire and her M.F.A. from The University of Massachusetts. She has taught art at Bay Path College, Longmeadow, Ma., Springfield College, and The University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has taught from kindergarten through college and (until her early retirement in 1995) was an Art Specialist at the Runkle School in Brookline, Ma.