RAiR | 1993-94

Walter Jackson

Born in Jackson, Mississippi, sculptor Walter C. Jackson’s (1940- ) work reflects the melding of the folklore he experienced in the rural south with the industrial and technological promise of the urban. He received his BS from Jackson State University and MFA from the University of Tennessee. He stayed on at the University of Tennessee teaching sculpture until 1980, then moved to New York as a professor at York College, City University of New York 1984-86. In 1989 Walter became an artist in residence at the Bronx River Art Center and returned in 1995 to work as its Executive Director until 1998. Walter is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in-Residence Grant; New York Foundation for the Arts Grants; and RAiR. He has exhibited at such venues as the Sculpture Center in New York City, MoMA P.S.1 in New York, Pittsfield Museum in Massachusetts and the Mississippi Museum of Art. His works are in the collections of the Tennessee Museum of Art in Nashville, the Schomburg Collection in New York and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Walter Jackson’s website