Fuzionz Magazine and TV Summer Issue 2013 | Page 21

Fuzionz Interview With Owner, Pamela

Fuzionz: Tell us a little about Pamela, the lady behind the scenes.
Pamela: I’m a student of Black History and a fan of 1970’s Black culture. I believe the 1970’s was the greatest decade ever
because that’s when it was cool to be Black. The music, fashion, films, TV shows, it was all funky and in your face.
I wanted to collect items from this decade so I could archive a period in history that was familiar to me. I’ve been collecting
for the past 14 years.

Fuzionz: Tell us about your museum.
Pamela: The Museum Of UnCut Funk has a very unique collection of 1970’s Blaxploitation movie posters, both American and
International versions, comic books with images of Black Superheroes and Villains, and a very rare collection of Black
Animation. Our Black animation collection includes original production cells and drawings from 1970’s Saturday morning
cartoons that featured Black characters. These cells are the original artwork used under the camera to produce the cartoons.
We also have a collection of gold and silver coins, stamps, crate labels, advertising tins and vintage movie posters all which
feature Black images on them.

Fuzionz: What inspired you to start the museum?
Pamela: The Museum Of UnCut Funk is about all things funky. I’m a big fan of museums, I love to visit them and learn as
much as I can about history. But I often feel as if the same stories are told over and over again. The same art is exhibited over
and over again
There is so much to our history, to the Black experience, that I wanted to put a different spin on what a museum could be. I
don’t recall hearing of a museum that focuses solely on the 1970’s, let alone Black popular culture from the 1970’s.

Fuzionz: Do you have a lot of people inquiring about your museum?
Pamela: Yes! One of the largest websites for collectors, Collectors Quest, profiled me and our collection in a series of videos.
They featured our collection on their website during Black History Month. Bio.com also placed images from our collection on
their site for Black History Month. We are also getting a lot of traffic and growing our following on Facebook and Twitter.

Fuzionz: If people want to donate and give back to this wonderful effort that you put forth to keep “uncut funk” around, how
would they do so?

People can support us by visiting our site and telling their friends to “Like” our Facebook page and join us on Twitter.

Fuzionz: Who has been your biggest inspiration in the “uncut funk” world (music or film industry) and why?
Pamela: My business partner is the music person. I’m into the films. I love the films that were produced during the 1970’s.
However good or bad they were…they were bold and in your face. We had enough of “The Man” and we were stickin’ to him!