August 4th, 2020
QuadCities.com Virtual Art Gallery Features Bruce Walters!
Welcome to the QuadCities.com Virtual Art Gallery!
In this feature, we’re spotlighting area artists and their work. Every Tuesday we’ll feature a new local artist.
It’s free and our way of showcasing awesome area artists and allowing them to include a link to their own online gallery or patreon!
If you’d like to be included in the gallery, just send your bio, a headshot pic of yourself and up to a half-dozen .jpgs of your art to Sean@QuadCities.com. We look forward to featuring you and your artworks in our gallery!
Walters, a Professor of Art at Western Illinois University, is an active artist whose work has been included in more than one hundred solo, competitive or invitational exhibitions.
Regionally, his work has been selected for exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center, Madison Art Center, Millennium Park, Chicago and 
Russian Cultural Center, Memphis. Internationally, his work has been selected for inclusion as a contributing artist in the Uster Festival of Art & Design, Ulster University, Belfast, Geddes Institute for Urban Research, University of Dundee, Scotland and Tate Modern, London.
Russian Cultural Center, Memphis. Internationally, his work has been selected for inclusion as a contributing artist in the Uster Festival of Art & Design, Ulster University, Belfast, Geddes Institute for Urban Research, University of Dundee, Scotland and Tate Modern, London.Two recent short films created and directed by Walters have been broadcast on Midwest PBS stations. His work is included in permanent collections such as the John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life, Augustana Museum of Art and Rock Island Arsenal Museum.
Music has been an important aspect of his work. In addition to using his own compositions and performances, Walters has coordinated exhibitions of his work with a symphony orchestra, string quartet, rap, metal and punk bands as well as electronic, clarinet, violin and drum solos.
Walters’ large scale artworks include a 90’ projection across the exterior of the Figge Art Museum shown in conjunction with the Smithsonian NASA | ART exhibition; multiple large scale projections in the State Historical Museum of Iowa, 30’ paintings displayed on the exterior of the German American Heritage Center and mural permanently displayed in the Bix Beiderbecke Museum & World Archives.
He has designed graphics for numerous artists and clients -including the National Library of Wales and Spike Gallery, Chelsea, New York; and created work for online and print publishers such as the Museum of Computer Art, Brooklyn and McGraw Hill.
And here’s some of his work:
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