EDUCATION
2022 MFA, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2007 BA, Bates College
TEACHING
2024 Adjunct Instructor of Art + Design, Basic Design, Regis College, Weston, MA
2023 - 2024 Visiting Assistant Professor, Providence College, Providence, RI
2023 Adjunct Instructor, Technical Mastery in Ceramics, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
2023 Adjunct Instructor, Professional Practices for Artists, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
2022 Adjunct Instructor, Mold Making and Multiples, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
2021, 2022 Instructor of Record 3D Foundations, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
SOLO AND GROUP SHOWS
2024 Community BLOOMS, The New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA (solo)
2024 Symbiosis, Edwards Art Gallery, Holderness, NH (solo installation)
2023 Enmeshed, Installation Space, North Adams, MA (solo installation)
2023 Fewer than 100 days..., 100: Marking Attleboro Arts Museum's Centennial, Attleboro, MA (juried, group show)
2022 - 2023 Enmeshed, Crapo Gallery, New Bedford, MA (solo installation)
2022 The Ellarslie Open 39, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ (juried, group show)
2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Star Store Galleries, UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
2022 Conversations: Between CVPA Faculty + Students, CVPA Gallery, Dartmouth, MA (group)
2021 Cohorts - Alone : Together, MFA Online Exhibition, the University of Montana and Montana State University, MT (juried)
2021 Variations in Clay: Exploring Clay as Medium in Contemporary Ceramics, Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA (group)
2019 Breath From Afar, Taoxichuan Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China (juried)
2017 Renegade Craft Fair, San Francisco, CA (juried)
2015 Art Span Open Studios, Smaart Gallery and Studio, San Francisco, CA
2015 Vase and Platter Private Dining Room Installation, Tratto Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
2017 Tratto Restaurant, Eat, Drink, Design: Restaurant Design Talk & Happy Hour, SF Design Week, San Francisco, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Rodden Walker, Katy. "Can ecofemists art shift perspective?" Rebecca Hutchinson: Re-Generation, Everson Museum of Art Catalog, Dec 2023.
2023 Green, Lisa. “ 'Enmeshed' at Installation Space Inspired by an Unseen Species.” Rural Intelligence, May 9, 2023.
https://ruralintelligence.com/arts/enmeshed-at-installation-space-inspired-by-an-unseen-species
2023 Franklin, Diane. “Attleboro Art Museum Exhibition,” Fibre Arts Take Two, May 2023. https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/articles/franklin/
2022 “Outstanding Students 2022,” Surface Design Association Journal, Fall, 2022, p. 52. (selected)
2022 “Outstanding Students 2022,” and "Students to be Featured in the Fall Journal" Surface Design Association Blog, July 29, 2022. (selected)
https://www.surfacedesign.org/events-exhibits/exhibits/outstanding-students-2022/
2022 McQuaid, Cate. “6 art-school stars from around Boston to watch in 2022” The Boston Globe, May 11, 2022. (selected)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/11/arts/6-art-school-stars-watch-2022/
2022 Hess, Erica. “Studio Visit with Katy Rodden Walker,” All She Makes Magazine, Issue 5, Spring, 2022, p. 62 - 65. (selected)
2022 Featured Artist, create! Magazine, issue #30, May 2022, p. 86 – 87. (juried)
www.createmagazine.com/blog/issue-30-finalists-announced
2022 Wilkinson, Don. “Art Beat Reviews ‘Conversations Between CVPA Faculty and Students,’” The Herald News, March, 2022.
2016 “The Art of Good Eating,” Supper Magazine, Issue 4, October 2016 p. 53 - 58.
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/supper_04?e=0/39395841
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 Nancy Holt’s Going Around in Circles (1973), Coordination of programming for video presentation and lecture, New Bedford, MA
2021 MFA Glimpse Show, Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA
2021 Variations in Clay: Exploring Clay as Medium in Contemporary Ceramics, Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA
AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS
2025 Grant Co-Recipient, UMass Dartmouth Blue Economy Initiatives, Project Vestibules: Urban Eco-Art Installations & Climate Resilience Project
2024 Grant Recipient, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cultural Sector Recovery for Individuals
2023, 2024 Grant Recipient, New Bedford Cultural Council, Community Blooms Project
2022 Outstanding Student Award, and 1 of 3 students selected to be published in Fall 2022 Journal, Surface Design
Association
2022 Nominee, Outstanding Student Award, International Sculpture Center
2021, 2022 Graduate Teaching Assistant Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2019 Invited Artist, Taoxichuan Autumn Fair, Jingdezhen, China
2019 Provost Office Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2019 Graduate Student Senate Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2019, 2020 Studio Assistant Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2007 Academic Honors, East Asian Studies Honors Thesis, Bates College
2006 Tanaka Memorial Foundation, Research Study Grant
COLLECTIONS
Taoxichuan Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
Tratto Restaurant, San Francisco, CA
COMMISSIONS
2022 Blurring the Boundaries 3 panel slide drawings, private buyer
2016 Tratto Restaurant Commission in collaboration with Amos Goldbaum, Vase Installation, Sharing Platters, Planters
2017 Cappuccino cup set, private buyer
2017 Peace Bowl, private buyer
2017 Large teardrop vase, private buyer
2017 Large teardrop vase, private buyer
2016 Large wood fire fruit bowl, stackable bowls and mug set, private buyer