Sydney Walker

Since retiring as a professor of art education from The Ohio State University in 2016, Sydney has returned to full-time artmaking. During her tenure as a professor, she researched and wrote extensively about the artmaking process, authoring the widely-read text, Teaching Meaning in Artmaking (2000), and, most recently, a work in process, Naming Play for Artmaking.
These writings entertain strategies that inform her own artmaking practice, most particularly that of play as it involves chance, nonsense, and experimentation. Through this process, she draws together the disparate to bring forth new ways of thinking such as intertwining a playful aesthetic of oppositions with spiritual seriousness in her most recent work.

1992 Ph.D., Art Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL,

1985 MFA, Painting, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

1988 MA, Art Education, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

1965, BA Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL.

Group Exhibitions
Birmingham Biennial, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, 1985.

Three plus One, Macon Museum of Arts & Sciences, 1985.

National Graduate Drawing Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, Oskosh, WI, 1985.

LaGrange National X, Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, Lagrange, GA, 1985.

Area Show, Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, OH, 1981

Southern Scholars on Women, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1980.

Collections
Phifer Wire Co., Tuscaloosa, AL
Europa Management Co. of American, Atlanta, GA
Bluewater Bay Development Co., Niceville, FL
Moody Gallery, University of AL Tuscaloosa, AL

Awards
3rd Place, $1,000 Award, Deborah Butterfield, John Buck, jurors, Birmingham Biennial, Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham, Alabama, 1985.