Jo Ann Walters, M.F.A.

Associate Professor of Art+Design
Photography Program
School of Art+Design

Office: Visual Arts Bldg., Rm. 2018
Tel.: (914) 251-6782
Fax: (914) 251-6793
Email: waltersj@purchase.edu

Jo Ann Walters exhibits nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured in New Color/New Work by Sally Eauclaire (Abbeville Press), The Pleasure and Terror of Domestic Comfort (MoMA), and DoubleTake Magazine. Walters has been described by the seminal photographer William Eggleston as “one of the few independently original photographers working in the medium today.”

Education
B.A., Arizona State University
M.F.A., Ohio University

Selected Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship
Connecticut Commission of the Arts Fellowship
Ferguson Award for Portraiture, Friends of Photography
Connecticut Commission of the Arts Fellowships (two)
Kittredge Fellowship
Peter S. Reed Foundation artist grant

Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
St. Louis Art Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Portland Museum of Art
Danforth Museum of Art
Bibliotèque Nationale
Center for Fine Photography (Bombay, India)