Sylvia 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
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Sunday Afternoon at Ballenas Bay
Woodcut, 17 ½ x 22
2007
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Relics and Reliquaries
Woodcut and Wood Engraving, 7 3/8 x 15 ½
1992
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