Walter Kitundu - Multidisciplinary Artist
Walter Kitundu is a Tanzanian-American multidisciplinary artist and educator. He creates sculpture, sound installations, and large scale public art works that address place, history, nature, and community. Kitundu also builds extraordinary musical instruments and mechanical devices when he isn’t obsessively documenting the natural world as a bird photographer. Kitundu is the director of Kitundu Studio, which focuses on the development and installation of public art works. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
Kitundu wishes to thank the following people for their guidance, love, and support… Shirin Vossoughi, Azadeh Kitundu, David Harrington, Doug Benidt, Alice Wingwall and Donlyn Lyndon, Laurie Lazer and Darryl Smith, Meshell N'degeocello, Tân Khánh Cao, Paulette Baker, Frances Phillips, Siobahn Ruck, Joanna Haigood, Peter Richards, Eungie Joo, Michael Swaine, Mike Petrich and Karen Wilkinson, Luigi Anzivino, Uncle Jesse and family, his siblings Peter and Ancina, and his late mother and father Mary Ellen Kitundu RN and Dr. Peter Ayubi Kitundu.