Katy Rodden Walker

Katy Rodden Walker is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and experimental making enthusiast! Questioning constructed boundaries, hierarchies, and entrenched systems, her artistic research and creative practice explore the complexities and interconnections between humans, nonhumans, and technology as they relate to the natural world.

Her work primarily takes the form of complex experiential environments involving multidisciplinary research and collaboration, resulting in tactile and immersive installations that intersect with sculpture, ceramics, fiber, social practice, and new media genres. Her artistic research explores sites, scientific data, and examples of inter-species collaboration to create connections and juxtapositions among the superficial and the unseen, the macro and micro, and to investigate how natural examples can help us envision new solutions for societal and environmental problems.

Prior to teaching, she worked in healthcare technology and strategic design and branding fields, where she was exposed to various design processes, tools, and methodologies to bring patient portal products to market and create beautiful strategic branding and collateral for various clients and companies. Courses she has taught are Design Thinking, 3D Foundations, Basic Design, Sculpture I, Intro to Drawing, Professional Practices for Artists, Technical Mastery in Ceramics, and Mold Making and Multiples in Ceramics.

She has exhibited nationally and is the recipient of several grants from The New Bedford Cultural Council (2023 & 2024), and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Blue Economy Grant (2025). Her work has been featured on The Culture Show, in Fibre Art Take Two, the Surface Design Association Journal, and The Boston Globe. Rodden Walker holds a BA, with Honors, in East Asian Studies from Bates College and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.