Baker Artist Portfolios

Jessica Walton (Baltimore, MD) is a fiber and mixed media artist whose work is inspired by a love of art history, archaeology, psychology, process, material, and the human body.  She spent a month in 2014 in Mexico as a fellowship recipient for the NEH Summer Institute Pictorial Histories and Myth Histories: ‘Graphic Novels’ of the Mixtecs and Aztecs. This experience influenced the current body of work she is working on, a series of sculptural heads and masks using a traditional basketry technique called coiling.  Her work has been exhibited nationally including at the Delaware Art Museum and Kent State University Museum. In 2017 she was a Sondheim Semifinalist in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. In addition, she has curated a number of exhibitions and artist panel discussions at the Community College of Baltimore County. She is currently Coordinator and Associate Professor in the Art and Design department at the Community College of Baltimore County. She received her MFA from Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art, her BFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from Oberlin College in Archaeological Studies.