Sylvia Solochek Walters

Sylvia Solochek Walters received an MFA in 1962 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Painting and Printmaking and now works primarily with multicolor reductive woodcuts and monoprints. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums nationally and internationally since 1958. In addition, her prints are in major public collections including the St. Louis Art Museum, the Oakland Museum, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, Milwaukee Art Museum, Judah Magnes Museum and the Elvehjem Art Museum.

Walters began teaching drawing and printmaking in 1963 and taught at a variety of colleges and universities across the country. During the 1960s she was an award winning book designer while employed by the University of Wisconsin Press. In the 1970s she founded the Art Department at the University of Missouri- St. Louis, became its first department chair and later spent 10 years directing the department gallery while continuing to teach.
In 1984 San Francisco State University invited her to become a faculty member and Chair of the Art Department. With the exception of two years during which she served as Acting Dean of the College of Creative Arts, she served continually as Head of the department until her retirement in 2004. She presently teaches part-time through the Faculty Early Retirement Program.

Sylvia Solochek Walters Sylvia Solochek Walters received an MFA in 1962 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Painting and Printmaking and now works primarily with multicolor reductive woodcuts and monoprints. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums nationally and internationally since 1958. In addition, her prints are in major public collections including the St. Louis Art Museum, the Oakland Museum, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, Milwaukee Art Museum, Judah Magnes Museum and the Elvehjem Art Museum. Walters began teaching drawing and printmaking in 1963 and taught at a variety of colleges and universities across the country. During the 1960s she was an award winning book designer while employed by the University of Wisconsin Press. In the 1970s she founded the Art Department at the University of Missouri- St. Louis, became its first department chair and later spent 10 years directing the department gallery while continuing to teach. In 1984 San Francisco State University invited her to become a faculty member and Chair of the Art Department. With the exception of two years during which she served as Acting Dean of the College of Creative Arts, she served continually as Head of the department until her retirement in 2004. She presently teaches part-time through the Faculty Early Retirement Program. STILL LIFE WITH EITHER/OR Woodcut, 8 x 10 1995	Sunday Afternoon at Ballenas Bay Woodcut, 17 ½ x 22 2007
	Relics and Reliquaries Woodcut and Wood Engraving, 7 3/8 x 15 ½ 1992

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Sylvia Solochek Walters

STILL LIFE WITH EITHER/OR

Sunday Afternoon at Ballenas Bay

Relics and Reliquaries