帕米拉·弗兰克斯是1956年届毕业的马萨诸塞州威廉姆斯学院美术馆(WCMA)馆长。 在加入WCMA之前,她是耶鲁大学美术馆高级副馆长,以及小西摩·H.诺克斯现当代艺术策展人。
在获得奥斯汀德克萨斯大学艺术史博士学位后,弗兰克斯作为耶鲁大学美术馆(YUAG)博士后研究员开始了她的职业生涯,并于2004年成为该美术馆第一位学术事务馆长。 在YUAG的14年职业生涯中,她在塑造和执行教学、展览、公共项目、社区参与、技术,以及与其他学术性艺术博物馆合作等事项方面发挥了核心的作用。
Pamela Franks is the Class of 1956 Director of the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA). Prior to joining WCMA, she was the Senior Deputy Director and Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG).
After earning her Ph.D. in the history of art from the University of Texas at Austin, Franks started her career as a Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at YUAG and became its first curator of Academic Affairs in 2004. Throughout her 14-year career at YUAG — which included roles as Deputy Director, Lead Curator, Acting Director and Senior Deputy Director — she played a central role in shaping and carrying out priorities for teaching, exhibitions, public programs, community engagement, technology and collaborations with other academic art museums.