February 11, 1942-April 13, 2022

Makau’s 1995 appointment as one of California State University Monterey’s Founding Faculty led them to the Central Coast, where Pavlo abandoned the avenues in commercial art she had pursued previously in a quest to tap fine art’s potential to serve humanity, the earth, and all who dwell here together.

Early on, Pavlo enrolled in a Monterey Peninsula College sculpting class, her first and only “formal” art class. Her performance was so outstanding and beyond the fold that a photo of her sculpting was featured on the cover of the following year’s college catalogue. And in a condolence letter to her life partner more than 25 years later, the professor recalled with great admiration Pavlo’s way of being, insights, and extraordinary native artistic gifts.

Pavlo was a truly modern-day Renaissance artisan using multiple venues and modalities within those venues to reach out and share her insights, whether it be Fine Art, Architecture, Furniture Design, or Poetry to name a few. Within the realm of Fine Art alone, she used whatever media and genres she envisioned as most promising to fulfill her visionary goals. Toward this end, she created more than 100 richly diverse works prior to her death in 2022.

Pavlo’s transcendent artistic vision follows the paths of fellow “artistic outsiders” she found inspirational, such as da Vinci, Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh, O’Keefe and others. Innately endowed with an extraordinary measure of creativity, imagination, courage, native intelligence, wit, curiosity, enthusiasm, strength, resilience, and visual acuity, she came naturally equipped to use art’s powers to speak truth to power. At the same time, her generosity of spirit, empathy, loving kindness, and beautiful way of being imbued her with a deep commitment to using art to inspire, lift hearts, foster hope, and flourishing.