Combining documentary art, 3D-animated fiction, and experimental memoir, Up/Rooted: Pamela Woolford's Cabin Windows is a first of its kind series of virtual-reality experiences. The series of four VR experiences, each ranging in length from about 15-to-20-minutes long, is a unique retrospective presentation in which Woolford's narrative, performative, and film work are experienced life-sized, three dimensionally, and in 360-degrees through windows, mirrors, and rooms of a virtual rustic, wooden cabin.

Here users watch Pamela Woolford's films in 3D rooms, walk through life-like animations of her stories, see and hear hyper-realistic 3D characters tell their own stories, and hear Pamela's 360-degree directional voice acting and sound design, bringing excerpts from her stories to life as never before.

Using her signature cabin motif, Pamela Woolford gives a surreal "timeless" nod to a symbol of the Great Migration in Up/Rooted, as users experience a family's multigenerational stories.

Pamela Woolford is the writer, director, sound designer, producer, and sole performer of the Up/Rooted experience, which is co-produced by her octogenarian mother Sadie Woolford. Up/Rooted is made possible in part with support from Maryland State Arts Council and the aSHE Fund. For more information on the show, visit pamelawoolford.com/uprooted. To be notified of the Up/Rooted launch and how you can experience it, join Pamela's email list.

Pamela Woolford's narrative multimedia project Antoine and Me, for which she performs the voiceover in character in addition to being the writer, director, and model, is the opening to a surreal love story contained in handmade photo albums and sound-designed photo narrations, or SDP narrations, an art form which she founded. The work premiered at the Baltimore Museum of Art "Baltimore, Addressed: Baker Artist Awards" exhibition, for which she created a site-specific installation centering the multimedia components of Antoine and Me in a broader story of Black love through time in Baltimore, Maryland, and combining Afrofuturism with archival materials dating back a hundred years.

Antoine and Me also marks the premiere of the world's first SDP narration Collectibles. A supply of 7 NFTs of the SDP narration for Photograph One of Antoine and Me was released at the WOCAX art show, Juneteenth weekend, 2022. For more information about the Antoine and Me project, visit pamelawoolford.com/antoine-and-me. For info about the related nfts, where you can actually hear an nft example of one of her SDP narrations, click the OpenSea NFT link  at pamelawoolford.com/nft.

Disrupt/ed (a mem-noir) is an upcoming Pamela Woolford memoir in verse with drawings by nationally syndicated Black-American editorial cartoonist Walt Carr and augmented reality in which viewers will be able to focus their smartphone or iPad on a particular image in the book and see the image "come to life" as a 3D experience directed by Pamela. With the tagline "A Black woman’s memory of her childhood confidence and the racist tide she swam against in suburban 1970s America," Disrupt/ed is a race-based childhood memoir in verse. In the book Pamela Woolford explores her early childhood in the 1970s in the planned integrated town of Columbia, Maryland, amidst this nation's legacy of enslavement of Black people, like her. (The book's illustrator Walt Carr is also a longterm resident of Columbia, Maryland.)

With the creation of Disrupt/ed (a mem-noir), Pamela Woolford originates the term "mem-noir."

mem-noir: [mem-nwär] NOUN, A memoir, written in short paragraphs or verse, concerned with being a person of the Black race within the context of a specified subject, time period, or circumstance. Visual art or photographs, especially biographical in nature, are often incorporated. 

Disrupt/ed is supported in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. For more information about Disrupt/ed (a mem-noir), visit pamelawoolford.com/disrupted.

Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir, a memoir short about anti-Blackness in America, is Pamela Woolford's latest film release in which she is the writer, director, editor, and sole performer. Originally scheduled to premiere at a 2020 solo show of her work at Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, the film has had a limited on-demand run (after the postponing of her gallery show due to to the pandemic). In collaboration with Busboys and Poets and the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, Woolford hosted an online film-premiere event, Art as a Response to Anti-Blackness, which was attended by 1.5 thousand people. The film also screened through Marymount University later that year and was the subject of Woolford's 2020 Bisson Lecture in the Humanities there. For more information about Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir, please visit pamelawoolford.com/interrupted.

Interrupted will screen as part of the virtual-reality experience Up/Rooted: Pamela Woolford's Cabin Windows. For more information , visit pamelawoolford.com/uprooted. 

Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir was made possible in part thanks to the support of Maryland State Arts Council, United Way of Central Maryland, Mosaic Center for Culture and Diversity at University of Maryland Baltimore County, Leah Mazur and Drew Willard, Bob James, and Resonance Records.

Generation is an art film written, directed, sound designed, edited by, and starring Pamela Woolford. Woolford is the lead onscreen performer, and the voice of the elderly woman in the film's unique overlapping dual voiceover narration. The film was an official selection for film festivals in North America, Europe, and Asia and won the 2019 Black Continental Independent Movie Award for Originality; the 2019 CR8:BLK Black Women Cinema Week Audience Choice Award; the 2018 North Beach American Film Festival Jury Award for Best Experimental Film, Animation Film, or Music Video; a 2018 Canada Shorts Award of Commendation; and a 2018 Experimental Forum Honorary Mention Award for Pamela Woolford's "vision and the film's unique contribution to cinema." For more information about Generation, visit generationthemovie.com.

Generation will screen in the virtual-reality experience Up/Rooted: Pamela Woolford's Cabin Windows. For more information , visit pamelawoolford.com/uprooted.

Pamela Woolford’s love of storytelling began in childhood, listening to her mother’s stories of growing up in rural North Carolina in the '30s, '40s, and ‘50s. It is these tales, decades after Woolford first hears them, that inspire her to write her short story “Just After Supper” and create the character Mable as an homage to her mom. “Just After Supper” appeared in the literary publication Origins Journal. It was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize by novelist and Pushcart Prize editor Mark Wisniewski. Woolford adapted the story to create the script for her multi-award-winning experimental film Generation.

When Generation was released it received extensive news coverage, including the cover story for Her Mind magazine.

Pamela Woolford is writing and directing two upcoming multimedia documentary projects. One is a multimedia project entitled Columbia's Black Freedom Visionaries about early Black residents of Pamela Woolford's hometown of Columbia, Maryland, who have contributed significantly to the ideal of freedom in our nation. For this project Pamela Woolford is a recipient of the prestigious Changemaker Challenge Award from United Way of Central Maryland and Horizon Foundation. For more information, visit pamelawoolford.com/visionaries.

The other is a documentary on 102-year-old Howard Stokes, who was one of the first Black people permitted to drive a streetcar or any public transportation in our nation's capital. It is an experimental documentary being created with animated collages. This documentary is produced by Pamela Woolford's octogenarian mother Sadie Woolford with funding in part by Maryland State Arts Council.

Meditations on a Marriage: A Memoir of Our Year and a Half is Pamela Woolford's marriage-memoir collection, a group of essays about her tumultuous relationship with her composer husband, who was emotionally abusive and showed signs of mental illness. Woolford was a 2016 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards finalist and shortlisted for the 2017 Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize for collection excerpts. Two excerpts from Meditations on a Marriage are published in Eunoia Review: "Coffee" and "Dog."

About  Meditations on a Marriage, Pamela Woolford says, "Six months into my marriage to my composer (now ex-) husband, he, out of the blue, berated me for taking a break while writing an email he asked me to write as a favor. I was astonished and confused. Six months after that I had the thought that he might kill me. His escalating verbal assaults and mental abuse left me with that much fear. Yet even after he drove me out of our home on New Year's Day 2015 with two days of back-to-back rages, what I wanted more than anything was to have the man I fell in love with back. After little more than a year with him, I had become someone I didn't recognize. I was 46 when we married, and it was my first marriage partially because I am cautious, logical, and independent. How did this happen to me? Verbal and mental abuse are insidious in the way they slowly turn a person inside out, in my case making me question my own logic and intuition and long for the man who was actually abusing me. Meditations on a Marriage is about the love I shared with a fellow artist, my surprising but not atypical reaction to his abuse and manipulation, and his psychological challenges,  as he exhibited signs of having a personality disorder."

In addition to Disrupt/ed and Meditations on a Marriage (described in their own individual project descriptions) and her short story “Just After Supper” (published in Origins Journal and appearing in the Generation project description), Pamela Woolford has published much additional creative writing and was a 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award winner for "notable artistic achievement" in literature. She has been a She Writes Press and SparkPress STEP Contest finalist for a memoir, a Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards finalist for creative nonfiction, shortlisted for the Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee for fiction, a Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Contest semifinalist at Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, and in addition to her State Arts Council Award previously mentioned, a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award winner for screenwriting

Pamela Woolford has published extensively, including more than 100 memoir, profile, human-interest, literary journalism, poetry, and think pieces published in The Baltimore Sun, Poets & Writers Magazine, NAACP's Crisis Magazine, Harvard University’s Transition, and other publications. Her writings have been selected for anthologies, translated into German, and widely cited.

To find out more about Woolford's writing, click the various links on the right or visit her writing portfolio at https://pamelawoolford.com/writing-portfolio.

Here are some links and descriptions of some of her online pieces:

1. "Pleasant People" is a short story in which Pamela Woolford explores facades of American society, walls between races, and a connection between two women stretching even beyond the grave. The story has been republished with an introduction on Grace and Gravity. It has been anthologized in Amazing Graces edited by Richard Peabody and was once published on Alfie Dog Fiction.
2. “Here I Am Looking” is an example of Pamela Woolford’s creative-nonfiction work in which she muses off of works of fellow artists, in this case two photographs of herself, one displayed with the "Here I Am Looking" essay and one, by noted art photographer Fabrice Monteiro, yet to be shown. It is memoir which can be described as a flash essay. “Here I Am Looking” currently appears in the literary journal Eunoia Review and was published and shared on social media just before the first Women's March on Washington. It was then translated into German and published in Briefe aus Amerika. From having written "Here I Am Looking," Pamela Woolford was interviewed on the podcast Fury: Women's Lived Experiences in the Trump Era. 
3. “This Is What Happened,” the first memoir Pamela Woolford ever wrote, she wrote unconventionally in the third person. Since witnessing an incident causing her father severe brain damage leading to his death in 2012, Woolford has suffered PTSD symptoms. She couldn't write for about a year until she began writing “This Is What Happened.” It is her tender, sometimes funny story of finding her way back from tragedy and deals with mourning the loss of her father, online dating at 45, and an unexpected letter from U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski. This piece appears in the literary journal Map Literary: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Art.
4. (TRIGGER WARNING) "Are IFC and Netflix Promoting the Rape of Brown and Asian Boys?" is a literary journalism piece by Pamela Woolford. It appears on Medium where it runs with an audio recording of the article in which Woolford performs the voiceover. 
5. Pamela Woolford was one of the first writers published on the Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote website. Chosen by site creator and bestselling author Julianna Baggott, her piece was published alongside that of bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult and award-winning poet Erin Belieu on September 27, 2016.
6. The Baltimore Sun ran a feature on Pamela Woolford and her upcoming  project Columbia's Black Freedom Visionaries, for which she has received a Changemaker Challenge Award from United Way of Central Maryland and Horizon Foundation. For more information on Columbia's Black Freedom Visionaries, visit pamelawoolford.com/visionaries.