Jamie Walker
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 1986
Jamie Walker’s studio work is directed by materiality, perception, and chance. It includes participatory installations, wall bowls, and spherical accumulations rendered at both an intimate and large scale.
Walker’s work has been featured in twenty-four one-person exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions throughout the U.S. Collections include the Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Henry Art Gallery, Washington; Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin. 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. In 2005 he was honored with a Flintridge Foundation Artist Grant and in 2010 completed a three-piece outdoor commission for Vulcan Inc., located at Amazon headquarters in Seattle.
Walker is a professor of art at the University of Washington and was the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. He has served as both associate director and director of the School of Art. He received a BA/history and a BFA/ceramics from the University of Washington and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
