Ciarra K. Walters

Ciarra K. Walters ’24 (Photography + Media & Society MFA) is a visual artist and educator based in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Ciarra K. Walters. Untitled (4 Sisters), 2024. Part of Walters' thesis project “Eileen’s Daughters”

Ciarra K. Walters ’24 (Photography + Media & Society MFA) is a visual artist and educator based in Prince George's County, Maryland. She has consistently exhibited in solo and group shows across the country, including Giving you the best that I got at the California African American Museum.

Her art practice examines the body as a site of agency, self-discovery, and environmental resonance through an interdisciplinary approach using performance, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.

She transforms her body into temporary sculptures using materials like wire, eggshells, and nylons, blurring the boundaries between the self and the environment. Her ritualistic performances and movement work are characterized by spontaneity, intuition, and trust in the body's capacity for self-expression.

Walters's process is guided by her awareness of how power and identity shape our relationships with the spaces we occupy. 

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Walters’ thesis project, Eileen’s Daughters, explored female identities through the lens of daughterhood using ceremonial performance, photography, film, and sculptures, embodying the invisibility and fragility of daughters.

Untitled, 2023. + Enlarge
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