Bruce Walters

Who is Bruce Walters?

Bruce Walters, is an artist who has exhibitioned digital artworks, graphite drawings and paintings primarily in the American Midwest. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and BA from the University of Iowa. He is a Professor of Art at Western Illinois University.

Walters' artwork has been included in more than one hundred solo, invitational, and competitive exhibitions. Though his work has been primarily exhibited in galleries in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, his work has been shown in London, England, Germany, Japan, New York and Washington DC. He has won best of show awards in seven different media: from graphite drawings to digital artwork.

Since 2007, Walters has exhibited and published artworks centered on the history, traditions and symbolism of Halloween. Drawings from the Halloween Flight series were first exhibited at the Des Moines Art Center as part of the Iowa Artists 2008 exhibition. 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 exterior of the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA to an interior projection at the Contemporary Art Center in Peoria, Peoria, Il. The first solo exhibition, at the Western Illinois University Art Gallery in 2009, displayed large paintings, drawings, digital paintings, lenticular prints, exterior and interior video projections. The exhibition also incorporated dancers, actors and musicians -including a harpsichordist and violinist.