Paula Walters-Parker is a Jamaican visual artist and teacher based in Brooklyn who centers her work around the environment she lives in; using natural materials she has encountered through her childhood in Jamaica as a foundation for her practice. Walters-Parker graduated from Parsons School of Design 20 years ago, where she studied fine arts with a minor in education. Her career has woven these focuses together; Walters-Parker employs her artistic skills to teach high school students about how art can be a tool to navigate our relationships with the world around us.