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.
Photos starting with top right: Bald Eagle with nesting material photographed at Union Bay Natural Area, Seattle, Washington; In-process photo of Ruupaywa: Songs of the Watershed, a public artwork for the Alameda Creek Watershed Center in Sunol, CA; With a Merlin on migration - Kitundu volunteering for the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory.
