Pamela Bell

Pamela Bell is a collage artist, entrepreneur, and advocate whose work spans creative practice, social enterprise, and mental health awareness. (www.pamelabellcollageworks.com) 

Through layered compositions, her collage work explores themes of loss, transformation, and renewal — reimagining history, identity, and the spaces women occupy in art and society. Color and pattern are central to her practice, which she approaches intuitively through cutting, tearing, and assembling. 

Pamela was one of four founding partners of Kate Spade and Jack Spade, alongside Kate Spade, Elyce Arons, and Andy Spade. The team built the company across all areas of the business — including design, product development, merchandising, retail, e-commerce, and global licensing — financing growth through its own earnings before selling to Neiman Marcus in 2008. 

She is the founder of prinkshop, a social enterprise that transforms advocacy into wearable campaigns, produced in the USA to create jobs and mobilize change. (www.prinkshop.com) 

A longtime champion of mental health awareness, Pamela founded the Bowery Arts Project in 2012, offering therapeutic art classes to individuals in recovery. In 2019, she joined Kenneth Cole as co-founder, creative partner, and board member of The Mental Health Coalition, working to destigmatize mental health conversations. 

Her civic and creative affiliations include Tony Voter, Advisory Committee Member of The American Theatre Wing, CFDA member, Disruptor Fellow, and Lang Center Innovation Fellow at Columbia Business School.