Katie Jett Walls

Katie Jett Walls is a Creative Practitioner exploring landscape and our bond with the natural world. Walls is based in Washington, DC. Born in 1977 in Oklahoma City, OK, Walls has lived in rural Montana, the Deep South and the Washington DC suburbs before finding home in the Takoma Park neighborhood of the District.

Walls is a 2025 and 2026 recipient of the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grant.

When she’s not behind a camera or in front of an easel, you might find her swimming laps, hiking in Rock Creek Park, or road-tripping out West with her family in their little camper named Pearl. Those trips out West awakened a deep devotion to the natural world and commitment to advocate for wilderness and public lands.

While considered “self-taught”, Walls reinforces her artistic practice through courses with artist-mentors such as Melinda Tidwell, Nicholas Wilton, Roxanne Evans Stout and others.