Pam Pitts began her working years as an aircraft mechanic, building & maintaining general aviation planes until 1995. Deciding to take things to the next level, she began working on her Engineering degree at Palomar College. It was there that she took a stained glass class and later a casting class. She loved the glass, especially molten glass, but the sizes of the tools were cumbersome. The class took a field trip to a local torch working studio. One look at the flowing glass in a weight class she could handle and Pam was sure of what she wanted to pursue. The precision of science and the unexpected result of artistic expression was the perfect balance. That field trip became a full time job. It began with Pam's first instructoral studio, Flame and Fusion.  They taught the skills needed to get the glass to do what you want, but also the philosophy of when to let the glass do what it needs to. She had the chance to learn from other master artists like Cesare Tofollio, Lauren Stump, Lea Fairbanks, Patti Walton, Deb Crowley, Kim Affleck, Kate Fowle-Meleney, Bandu Scott Dunham, Corina Tettinger, and Jim Smirchich. The more information that came, the more Pam wanted to absorb. In 2001 Pam was able to visit Corning Glass Museum in New York. The vast collection of marbles inspired Pam to make them a special interest in her learning. By 2002 Pam was assisting the guest artists and began teaching her own basic to intermediate soft glass classes in bead making, marbles, complex canes, pendants, metal/glass reactions, introduction to borosilicate, and home instruction and studio assembly. Pam enjoys the challenge of using many different types of glass. While her main palate is the Italian made Moretti, she minors in borosilicate glass such as Northstar and Glass Alchemy. Pam say's "The big draw to glass for me is its endless possibilities. No matter how long you work with it or study its properties, you cannot get to the end of the discovery in a life time." Pam's work can be found at Breach The Moon Gallery in Newport, OR,  Ornament Magazine, Vol. 28, No.1, autumn 2004, and The Flow Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 4, 2006, as well as The Flow Magazine, Winter 2008 issue.