PAMLA is proud to share the official artwork for the PAMLA 2025 Conference in San Francisco (November 19–23 at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel), now available on T-shirts, hats, stickers, shower curtains, backpacks, and more through our PAMLA Redbubble shop.
Pamlapsests 2025, created by graphic designer Luisa Lange, connects to this year’s conference theme: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.” Like a true palimpsest – a manuscript or painting layered with traces of the past – Luisa’s design is a palimpsest of PAMLA’s own art history.
It gathers together iconic visuals from across our history: Frank Quitely’s portrait The Kelvin Hall Clown for Send in the Clowns for the 2019 San Diego conference, Luisa’s PAMLA Cubed from Palm Springs in 2024, and the original 2008 PAMLA logo by Olivia Cardona, revised by Luisa for the 21st century. It also includes Nanette Hilton’s City of God, City of Destruction from Las Vegas in 2021, itself a Michelangelo palimpsest, Andrea Gogröf’s abstract paintings New York City Subway and This Is Not a Barbershop from Pacific Coast Philology 58.1/2, and Michaela Prohlov’s Shifting Perspectives from the 2023 Portland conference, evocative of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. Even Dr. Pampy, PAMLA’s tongue-in-cheek “mascot,” finds a place in this layered composition.
With Pamlapsests 2025, PAMLA’s visual history becomes part of the San Francisco conference itself: layered, playful, and evocative of memory and renewal. Luisa Lange, a versatile graphic designer working across photography, logos, and videography, reminds us through her motto to always “enjoy art everywhere.”
And yes, you really can enjoy this art everywhere: grab the T-shirt for the conference, sip from a matching mug, toss the design on a backpack, or even roll out a PAMLA carpet in your living room. Who knew memory and oblivion could look this good?