Studio Location
Columbus, OH 43206-3741
United States
Studio Hours
24 hrs 365 days a year. Contact me through my guestbook on the website listed above!
Artist's Statement
waltercking.com Walter King, Professor, Visual Communication, is full time faculty at the Columbus College of Art and Design. He received a BFA in Illustration from CCAD; an MFA in Painting from Boston University; and also studied painting at Wichita State University. Mr. King worked his way through college as a graphic artist and illustrator in the 70s and 80s, and has taught drawing, color, design, and illustration since 1985 and served as chair of the Illustration Department for 7 years. Past commercial, publishing and non-profit clients include 'O' (Oprah Magazine), Apple Computers, Pro-Marketing, Re-Source Marketing, Streigle Advertising, Quaker Hill Press, Continental Heritage Press, Friends Action Committee, 'Quadrant' the Journal of the C.G. Young Foundation of NYC and DC Heath Publishers. In 1982 and 83 King designed and crafted the visual image and all print media (including package design for 12 laser discs) for Profiles in American Art, a 12-part PBS series. King's paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrations have been exhibited throughout Ohio, Oklahoma, regionally, at the Society of Illustrators and the AIGA in New York, the IABC in San Francisco, as well as in Budapest, Hungary; Dresden, Germany; Buenos Aires and Cordoba, Argentina; Zagreb, Croatia; and Hiroshima, Japan.