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About
Pennsylvania native and Boulder, Utah, resident Pam Furches has cultivated a diversity of talents and interests over her career, including her primary profession as a freelance graphic designer.
Her graphic design skills have been widely heralded for their artistic flavor, conceptual brilliance, and use of personalized logo development that takes into account the personality and character of her clients. She’s won awards for her work while at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, where she was a senior graphic designer from 2003 to 2010.
Pam received her BFA in graphic design in 2003 from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, her permaculture design certification from the Permaculture Research Institute in 2012, and a Wilderness First Responder certification from the National Outdoor Leadership School in 2014. She is currently endeavoring to achieve a certificate in botanical illustration.
She also works as a master gardener, permaculture designer, outdoor survival instructor, artist and arts advocate, illustrator, and devotee of outdoor adventure.
Pam moved out West with her husband, Matt, in 2010. The couple soon went to work for the acclaimed Boulder Outdoor Survival School, where Matt continues to serve as a master instructor of primitive survival skills and bushcraft, and Pam serves as an instructor as well as store and garden manager.
In addition to her work as a graphic designer and BOSS staffer, the native of Oxford, Pa., serves as secretary for the Boulder Community Alliance and Boulder Town Tree City Committee. She also volunteers for the Boulder Skills Foundation and cofounded the Boulder Seed Collective, which seeks to preserve and distribute heirloom seed varieties to gardeners.
The skills foundation seeks to revive and restore the knowledge of old-time skills that Pam believes are still of great value in today’s world. That includes another of her pastimes, weaving.
A love for creativity and the outdoors remains central to all this multi-faceted artist does. She moved to Boulder and the expansive, stunningly scenic Escalante region of southern Utah for the same reasons many others come here—a dramatic lifestyle change in the heart of what is still one of the most remote regions in the United States.