Degrees:
M.F.A., University of Cincinnati; B.A., Bellarmine University
Biography:
Ms. Walter earned her title of Emerita Faculty from the Mount in 2024. She was an associate professor within the Department of Creative Arts for Fine Arts, Art, Art Education, Art History. During her 25 years at the Mount, Professor Walter has taught drawing, painting, figure sculpture, and honors courses. She helped design and team-teach the College’s first interdisciplinary course, and continues this work in The Naturalist as Artist/The Artist as Naturalist, the Art & Design Foundation Seminar and the Senior Capstone for Art and IAD majors. She has been involved with her students and colleagues in a number of special arts community projects, including the Visiting Artist Alliance, the response project 2011 and 2012 with the Contemporary Arts Center, and a collaboration with the Freestore Foodbank and Artworks summer 2013. In addition to summer work on the archeological excavation of the Roman site at Torre de Palma, Portugal, she has taught a summer course at Huron University in London. She was awarded the College’s Clifford Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2005.
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Ms. Walter holds a M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Cincinnati (1988) and a B.A. in Art from Bellarmine College (1980). She studied painting post-baccalaureate in the Master's of Art program at the University of Louisville’s Hite Institute (1980–1986). Professor Walter exhibits drawings, paintings and sculpture regionally. Her commissions include building-mounted sculptures for the Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church and a life-size bronze sculpture of St. Francis of Assisi for the Franciscan Media (formerly St. Anthony Messenger Press)headquarters in Cincinnati.