Bruce Walters

Walters' artwork has been included in more than one hundred solo, invitational, and competitive exhibitions.https://www.bhc.edu/event/artspace-gallery-exhibit-drawings-by-bruce-walters/{{cite web|url=http://www.wiu.edu/cofac/art/faculty_staff_info/walters.php |title=Faculty - Department of Art - Western Illinois University |access-date=2014-05-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521115419/http://www.wiu.edu/cofac/art/faculty_staff_info/walters.php |archive-date=2014-05-21 }}http://ilikeillinois.com/living/arts-culture/393-illinois-artist-of-the-month-bruce-walters Illinois Artist of the Month: Bruce Walters JUne 2015 Working in collaboration with some forty musicians, technicians, scientists and artists, Walters created Exploring NASA, which was first displayed as a 100' wide projection on the exterior of the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA in conjunction with the Smithsonian exhibition "NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration" in 2012.{{Cite web |url=http://www.figgeartmuseum.org/Figge-Art-Museum-(1)/June-2012/Exploring-NASA.aspx |title=Figge Art Museum - Exploring NASA |access-date=2014-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521144729/http://www.figgeartmuseum.org/Figge-Art-Museum-(1)/June-2012/Exploring-NASA.aspx |archive-date=2014-05-21 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.artlimited.net/agenda/exhibition-exploring-nasa-mixed-media-figge-art-museum-davenport/en/7581816|title=Exhibition, Exploring NASA, Multimedia, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, United-States}} In December 2013, Exploring NASA was displayed as multiple projections at the Iowa Historical Museum in Des Moines, IA. Multiple Exploring NASA videos and astronaut drawings were exhibited at the Moline International Airport Gallery in 2019.https://ezine.moodiedavittreport.com/ezine-266/airports-as-artports/ Electric Experiences, Cover and feature article, MoodieDavitt Report ezine 266https://qctimes.com/news/local/davenport-artists-new-airport-exhibit-honors-space-age-accomplishments/article_b45542a9-b62c-56dc-a674-048a6fb601c7.html Davenport artist's new airport exhibit honors space-age accomplishments July 2019

Walters' series of artworks based on Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition was exhibited in conjunction with a symphony orchestra concert at the Alder Theatre in Davenport, IA in 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.qcsymphony.com/press-releases.html?id%3D55 |title=Quad City Symphony Orchestra | Press Releases |access-date=2014-05-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521152803/http://www.qcsymphony.com/press-releases.html?id=55 |archive-date=2014-05-21 }} https://qctimes.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/visual/qcso-music-inspires-artist-bruce-walters-to-create-his-own-exhibition/article_a0574fc8-84d7-11e2-84e7-001a4bcf887a.html QCSO music inspires artist Bruce Walters to create his own ‘Exhibition’ Quad City Times, March 2013 His 30' canvas mural of jazz musician, Bix Beiderbecke was displayed on the exterior of the German American Heritage Center and Museum in Davenport, IA in conjunction with a museum and art exhibition in 2015.https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2015/07/05/bix-beiderbecke-german-heritage-exhibit/29652843/ Mural and Exhibition: Exhibit celebrates jazz legend's German heritage, Des Moines Register, July 2015

Walters has exhibited and published artworks centered on the history, traditions and symbolism of Halloween since 2007. Drawings from the Halloween Flight series were first exhibited at the Des Moines Art Center as part of the Iowa Artists 2008 exhibition.Iowa Artists 2008: Drawing, Des Moines Art Center Downtown, April 25 - August 9, 2008. Artwork page 39, ISBN 978-0-879003-56-9, Library of Congress Control Number 200892606 Vultus, a video sequence of one hundred cultural and Halloween masks, was projected on five art centers and galleries in October 2010 -ranging from forty foot high projections on the Figge Art Museum {{cite news| url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/desmoinesregister/access/2173334181.html?FMT=ABS&date=Oct+27%2C+2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107134158/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/desmoinesregister/access/2173334181.html?FMT=ABS&date=Oct+27,+2010 | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 7, 2012 | work=Des Moines Register | first=Michael | last=Morain | title=Artist projects spooky masks onto museums | date=October 27, 2010}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/slipknot-masks-included-in-western-illinois-university-vultus-project-on-halloween |title=Slipknot Masks Included in Western Illinois University 'Vultus' Project on Halloween | Roadrunner Records |access-date=2014-05-21 |archive-date=2014-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521131722/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/slipknot-masks-included-in-western-illinois-university-vultus-project-on-halloween |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease.php?release_id=8473|title = Animation of Masks in Illinois & Iowa Museums and Centers; "Halloween Flight" Exhibit - Western Illinois University News - Office of University Relations}} to an interior projection at the Contemporary Art Center in Peoria, IL.https://www.pjstar.com/story/entertainment/local/2010/10/24/halloween-party-video-examines-100/42526118007/ Halloween video examines 100 different masks in 14 minutes, Peoria Journal Star, October 2010 The first solo exhibition of Halloween Flight, at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery in 2009, displayed large paintings (the largest 12 x 10'), drawings, digital paintings, lenticular prints, exterior and interior video projections. The exhibition also incorporated dancers, actors and musicians -including a harpsichordist and violinist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease.php?release_id=7613|title = Bruce Walters' "Halloween Flight" Takes Wing Oct. 27 at WIU Art Gallery - Western Illinois University News - Office of University Relations}}

As a graphic designer and illustrator, Walters has created life-sized paintings for permanent display at the Hauberg Museum for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency {{Cite web|url=http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease.php?release_id=5625|title = Faculty Works, Environmental Exhibits on Display at WIU Art Gallery - Western Illinois University News - Office of University Relations}} (temporarily displayed in Millennium Park in Chicago), political cartoons for the Quad City Times’ Editorial page;{{cite web| url = http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/picture-perfect/article_291b29ea-655c-11df-b316-001cc4c03286.html| title = Picture perfect {{!}} Editorials {{!}} qctimes.com}} designed websites and created the artwork for book covers.Passages: A Collection of Personal Histories of Chippiannock Cemetery. Razor Edge Press. 2006, artwork cover, 1, 55, 125, back cover. {{ISBN|978-0-9774018-1-9}}Does The Shed Skin Know It Was Once A Snake?, Sean Leary, CreateSpace, 2011. {{ISBN|9781467945769}}, cover artworkFrankenstein's Mistress: Tales of Love & Monsters, Michael McCarty, Grinning Skull Press, 2020 {{ISBN|978-1947227569}}, cover artworkA Brief History of Bucktown: Davenport's Infamous District Transformed, Jonathan Turner, The History Press, 2018, {{ISBN|978-1626199095}}, artwork

Walters' career in education began at Marycrest College in Davenport, Iowa where he assisted Alan Garfield in creating the first Bachelor of Arts program in computer graphics in 1984 (recognized by SIGGRAPH). He taught at Marycrest for twelve years, serving as Chairperson of the Communication and Fine Arts Division for six years before beginning to teach at Western Illinois University in 1997. He taught the first graduate art classes at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA for Western Illinois University in 2005.[http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=3734 WIU Offers Graduate Art Classes at Figge Art Museum] Walters also taught computer art classes at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL for ten years, 2000-09.

Walters currently writes a continuing series of feature articles, "Buried Stories" and has written more than fifty "Art in Plain Sight" feature articles on public works of art published in the River Cities Reader. The Art in Plain Sight series began in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.rcreader.com/art/art-for-the-quick-and-the-dead/ |title=Art for the Quick and the Dead: Exploring the Sculptures of Quad Cities Cemeteries |access-date=2014-05-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330100251/http://www.rcreader.com/art/art-for-the-quick-and-the-dead/ |archive-date=2014-03-30 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.rcreader.com/art/art-in-plain-sight-lewitt/ |title=Art in Plain Sight: Sol LeWitt Works |access-date=2011-07-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928214351/http://www.rcreader.com/art/art-in-plain-sight-lewitt/ |archive-date=2011-09-28 }}

{{reflist}}

{{refbegin}}

• {{Cite book

| last =Wiebenga

| first =Terri

| others =Illustrated by Bruce Walters

| title =Passages: A Collection of Personal Histories of Chippiannock Cemetery

| publisher =Razor Edge Press

| year =2006

| pages =illustrations: cover, 1, 55, 125, back cover

| isbn =978-0-9774018-1-9

| no-pp =true }}

{{refend}}

• https://www.behance.net/bwalters Bruce Walters Artworks
• https://www.bhc.edu/event/artspace-gallery-exhibit-drawings-by-bruce-walters/ About the Artist: from ArtSpace Gallery Exhibition article (BHC)
• https://www.rcreader.com/authors/Bruce-Walters Author index: "Buried Stories" and Art in Plain Sight"

{{DEFAULTSORT:Walters, Bruce}}

Category:American artists

Category:Living people

Category:1954 births