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The Many Sides of Pamela Colman Smith: A panel discussion with Susan Wands, Mary K. Greer, Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, Dawn Robinson, and Sasha Graham

Time: 2 pm EST
Admission: $8 - Tickets HERE

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Join five authors of the life Pamela Colman Smith, co-creator of the Waite-Smith tarot deck and multi-talented artist extraordinaire, for a panel on Sunday, February 20th at 11pm PT, 2pm ET, 7pm GMT, exploring the many facets of her life. 

Why is she endlessly fascinating and inspiring to a worldwide community a century after her major works were produced? 

Learn the real story of this independent spirit who explored artistic mediums in established venues and avant-garde platforms, generating and self-publishing her own works. Her interests and talents intersected with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Lyceum Theatre, the Catholic Church, Swedenborgianism, and Arthur Dow of the Pratt Institute who influenced the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States.

A mystical seer who performed her Annancy Tales as a one-woman show, she also designed toy theatres, stage sets and costumes; was an acknowledged poet, author, illustrator of ballads and folktales, suffragette, and a publisher of books and broadsheets.

Pamela lived a life filled with bohemians and outlier artists, theatre directors and photographers. Pamela Colman Smith has fascinated the tarot community with her creation of the 1909 Rider Waite Tarot Deck, as it was then known. Her huge outlay of artistic creations inspired by her second sight and original point of view live on to this day in many museums. We'll be showing some newly discovered works that haven't been seen before!