Crystal Walters is a multidisciplinary artist and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. An alumnus of Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma, Walters holds a bachelor’s degree with concentrations in graphic design, printmaking and experimental photography.

Now managing the Cherokee Arts Center and Spider Gallery, her work has evolved toward a culturally rooted aesthetic. Drawing from childhood memories of growing up Cherokee — creek beds, crawdads, insects and organic materials — she incorporates family photo scans and layered imagery to explore heritage, memory and identity through analog and digital processes.