Pam works at Acme Art Studios which she co-founded in 1991. Four years after a life changing painting experience at an international artist colony St. Joakim Osogovoski, Macedonia, she partnered with Gayle Tustin and Dick Roberts to establish No Boundaries International Art Colony on Bald Head Island, NC. The artist residency program’s mission is to lay aside national boundaries in favor of cross-cultural exchange.
A UNCW faculty member since 1999, Toll taught studio classes and led two UNCW Study Abroad trips to Macedonia and Ireland. She was nominated for a United States Artist fellowship in 2009. In 2014 Toll designed ten stained glass windows for B’Nai Temple and, in 2019, designed doors for the temple Ark in Wilmington, NC. She led a student painted mural at the Good Shepherd Center in Wilmington, NC in 2017. In 2023, she participated in an artist residency in Certaldo, Italy. She was featured in Wilmington Star News (January 11, 2025 edition) “As Longtime Wilmington Artist retires from UNCW, a Striking Solo Show sends her on her way” by John Staton. She also completed a public art commission, “Cypress”, for the city of Clinton, NC in 2025.
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. Through the years, she has also created or loaned work for 17 film productions.
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
“2025 Studio Art Faculty Biennial” at CAB Gallery, UNCW, Wilmington 2025
“Joy of Art” annual exhibition at Thalian Hall, Wilmington, NC 2025
“Women’s Caucus for the Arts Exhibition” (“Gathering”) at Clearwater Arts Center, Concord, NC 2025
“Close to Home Exhibition” (“Hommage to Zora Hurston”, collage, from the CAM collection) at CAM, Wilmington, NC 2024-25
“20th Anniversary Exhibition of Art Point Gumno Center for Art and Sustainable Development” at various cities in Macedonia 2023/24
“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.
