Julie Pamkowski is an award-winning artist and photographer, who has worked in her free time tutoring special needs students and senior citizens to help them develop further artistically. Following graduation from CCHS, Pamkowski attended SUNY New Paltz and earned a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts, cum laude, in Photography.

Today she is attending graduate school at SUNY Albany, and has received a teaching assistantship for the Beginning Photography and Digital Imaging course. She is also lead coordinator of fine arts photography events at SUNY, lecture series coordinator, a member of the Art Graduate Student Organization, and assists Art Department faculty in their coursework.

She has also volunteered her time working with individuals suffering from traumatic brain injuries at the North East Center for Special Care in Lake Katrine, New York, transporting residents to and from art classes and assisting them in creating photographic collages and books. She has been a contributor to the Arts for Aids Sake program, and a 10-year volunteer for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk For the Cure.

Her work has appeared in many personal and group exhibits over the years including HVCC, where she won the 2008 Juried Student Art Exhibit Purchase Award. She was also a recipient of the Traverso Photography Scholarship, and a nominee for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award.