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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.  

PRESENTATIONS/PANELIST/PODCASTS/PAPERS

2025
Confessions of the Disheartened: Thoughts from Young DEIAB Adults in South Letterpress Book Arts Project - Advancing Justice through Scholarship, Art and Critique Panel
Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium - University of Georgia - Athens, Georgia February, 2025

2024
Exploring College Students' Perceptions of Care-Based Pedagogy: A Mixed Method Study
Accepted journal article for publication (2nd Author)
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indiana University
15% acceptance rate -stimated Publication Date' March 2025

Mulligans and Moodmeters: Care-Based Curricular Strategies 10 Talk
USG Teaching and Learning Conference - Athens, Georgia, April, 2024

2023
Session Chair: The Boundaries of a Caring Classroom: Understanding the Reach, Roles and Responsibilities of Care-Based Pedagogy Presentation Panelist: Teacher, Friend or Foe? Roles Professor Plav in Cultivating a Culture of Care
Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) - Richmond, Virginia October 10, 2023

Culturally Responsive Teaching and Experiential Learning as Forms of Narrative Storytelling
Information, Medium & Society: 21st International Conference on Publishing Studies Sorbonne Universite, Faculte des Lettress, Paris, France, June 30, 2023

The Success and Strife of Storytelling: Interactive Methods and modes of Storytelling through Narrative Design
17th International Conference on Design Principles & Practices
Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, March 2023

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2024
Central Print Book Arts Artist in Residence
St. Louis. Missouri
Confessions of the Disheartened: Thoughts from Young DEIAB Adults in the South (May 2024)

WORKSHOPS

2025
Wives Tales Workshop
Waterfall Arts Center, Belfast, Maine (June)

2024
Pop-sters: interactive Poo-ud Posters
Central Print, St. Louis, Missouri (May)

2023
Letterpress Lite Workshop
Waterfall Arts Center, Belfast, Maine (June)