About Jessica

Baltimore City

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… more