Evelyn Davis-Walker, MFA Portrait

Evelyn Davis-Walker, MFA

Associate Professor of Art | Graphic Design, Type, Illustration & Web

  • Master of Fine Arts
    Marywood University
  • Bachelor of Arts
    Otterbein University

Evelyn Davis-Walker serves as Associate Professor of Art in Graphic Design at VSU. She previously served as Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Otterbein University. She received her B.A. in both Visual Communication and Computer Art from Otterbein University with a minor in World Religion. Davis-Walker went on to get her M.F.A. in Advertising Design from Marywood University. 

Evelyn is a graphic designer; a maker; an educator; and a socially engaged art activist. She owns her graphic design business which focuses on non-profit clients such as American Red Cross, Meals on Wheels, Big Brothers Big Sisters, City of Westerville and other civic and community-based organizations.  

Her pedagogy and practice is centered around strengthening the need for care and empathy towards others through visual communication and serious play. Davis-Walker was awarded the 25 for 25 AOL $25,000 International Art Grant to design individual memory games for Alzheimer’s patients and received the Otterbein Alumni Recipient Community Engagement award as a result of her game design’s activism. She also received the VSU Presidential Excellence award for Teaching. 

She has received numerous awards and has exhibited in several solo, group and juried exhibitions for her mixed media collages and letterpress prints.