Statement

I am a multidisciplinary artist specializing in ceramics, painting, and printmaking based in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. My work is inspired by a deep curiosity about nature and our complex relationship with it. This curiosity fuels my desire to observe, reflect, and engage with our innate connection to the natural world.

Through scale, color, design, and pattern, my compositions invite viewers to contemplate our relationship with nature. I aim to reveal the often-overlooked details in the natural world—those quiet moments and intricate forms that might otherwise go unseen.

Much of the imagery in my work centers on organic elements, such as flowers and plants, combined with geometric and figurative forms. These elements, intertwined, convey spiritual themes and lived experiences that underscore the delicate complexity of nature—something I deeply admire, draw inspiration from, and continually seek to connect with.

Biography

Daiva Walz is a studio artist and emerging educator living and working in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Walz has an Associate in Arts from Triton College, River Grove, IL, where she studied drawing and painting. She also completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University, Chicago, IL. 

Walz’s most recent exhibitions include a sculpture piece exhibited at the 2024 DePaul Artist Collective juried exhibition and ceramic pieces exhibited in the 2022 Spring DePaul Artist Collective juried exhibition at the Richardson Art Gallery, DePaul University. In 2022, Walz completed a studio tech internship at Firebird Community Arts Center in Chicago, IL, while also working with their After School Matters program as an instructor's assistant, assisting teens with art projects. In 2023, she interned at the Arts of Life in Chicago, IL, where she worked as an artist mentor, assisting adult artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. There, Walz led group art demonstrations for the artists at the Chicago studio and via Zoom for their North Shore studio.

Walz is currently enrolled in a Master of Arts in Teaching program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, working towards her K-12 teaching licensure, and plans to graduate in 2026.