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Jamie Walker (he/him/his)

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Director, School of Art + Art History + Design

Wyckoff Milliman Endowed Chair in Art

Professor, 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture

ART 102D

jwalk@uw.edu

Personal Website

Fields of Interest

Background and Experience

Summary

Education

MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, 1983

BFA, Ceramics, University of Washington, 1981

BA, History, University of Washington, 1981

Jamie Walker has been faculty in the School since 1989 and was recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008. He was appointed Associate Director of the School of Art in 2011 and became Director in 2014.

His work has been featured in 24 one-person exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States. Collections owning his artwork include the Seattle Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Racine Art Museum, and the International Museum of Glass. Reviews of his work have appeared in Ceramics: Art and Perception, Sculpture, New Art Examiner, Ceramics Monthly, and American Ceramics. He was honored with a Flintridge Foundation Artist Grant in 2005, and he completed a three-piece outdoor commission in 2010 for Vulcan Inc., located at the Amazon headquarters in Seattle.

Artist website

Research + Creative Work

Jamie Walker, Acoustics, Hunter College Project Space, 2015; photo by Cooper Dodd
Jamie Walker, Marzo, 2015, ceramic, 28 x 21 x 14"; photo by John Taylor
Jamie Walker, Brocca 3_6.14, 2014, ceramic, 8.5 x 13 x 6"