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 faculty member since 1999, Toll taught studio classes and led two UNCW Study Abroad trips to Macedonia and 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 Exhibitions
“Longing and Movement” at UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building Gallery in Wilmington, NC 2025
“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.
