About

Jade Walker is a sculptor and an active member of the arts community living in Austin, Texas. She received her BFA from The University of Florida and her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Walker’s textile-based work is infused with expanded materials and color choices, layered with a freedom to embrace her abstract storytelling methods. Her new body of work compares textile patterns, written text, and musical notation as linear systems of communication. Historical female knitters engaged in espionage during wartime, forward-thinking fairy tales like Rumpelstiltskin and The Three Spinners, the historical notions of “women's work”, and the ways people all over the world rely on textiles to tell their story and the story of their ancestors have led to Walker’s investigation of how woven materials both hold notions of comfort and communication simultaneously.

Her work has been included in solo exhibitions at the Women and Their Work (Austin, TX), Elisabet Ney Museum (Austin, TX), the Austin Museum of Art (now The Contemporary Austin), Blue Star Contemporary Arts (San Antonio, TX), Dimension Gallery (Austin, TX), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), The Museum of Pocket Art (Austin, TX and traveling).

Walker has recently exhibited with Margaret Meehan at grayDUCK Gallery, completed a Facebook Artist in Residency, and is looking forward to her upcoming solo exhibition at Wrong in Marfa, TX.

Walker currently holds the position of Director + Curator at the Elisabet Ney Museum. Prior to this role, she held the position of Executive Director at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, Director of Austin Art Alliance Austin as well as studio manager for artist Deborah Roberts. In the past, she participated in the the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places as a panel member as well as steering committee member for The Art Galleries at Black Studies at The University of Texas.  She currently serves on the board of Fusebox and A3 (Austin Art Alliance). Her teaching roles have included that of lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin, arts instructor at The Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria in addition to artist talks with various groups and institutions including Texas State University and the Utah Museum of Art. 

Contact: jadeloriwalker@gmail.com

IG: jadewalker_studio