Marie Watt
Marie Watt | |
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Born | 1967 |
Known for | installation, printmaking |
Notable work | Blanket Stories[2] |
Awards | 2009 Bonnie Bronson Award Contemporary Northwest Art Award Betty Bowen Award[1] |
Patron(s) | Willamette University Seattle City Light Portland Community College[1] |
Website | mariewattstudio |
Marie Watt (born 1967) is a contemporary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Enrolled in the Seneca Nation of Indians, Watt has created work primarily with textile arts and community collaboration centered on diverse Native American themes.
Background
Marie Watt was born in 1967 in
Artwork
Watt works primarily with blankets as a material in her installation and collaborative works. She also prints
Watt involves community effort when creating artworks. Her project Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous Ones at the Tacoma Art Museum involved creating large-scale installations out of blankets donated by the community.[9] Not only are the blankets the medium but "Watt believes that blankets provide access to social connections, historical traditions, and cross-cultural meanings."[9] Watt hosts sewing circles, groups who gather and work such as with the piece Forget me not: Mothers and Sons in which they constructed portraits of servicemen (and one woman) from Oregon killed in the Iraqi war.[10]
Career
In September 2004, as part of the Continuum 12 artists series, an exhibit of her work opened in
In 2011, the
In 2014, 350 people contributed to an outdoor sculpture at Tacoma Art Museum. The towers she made were cast in bronze and she posted a micro-website with stories behind each blanket. Watt listens to her material and pulls from a deep sense of community and narrative to create works with history. Her works are both figurative and abstract.[4]
From 2017-2023, Watt served as a member of the Board of Directors for VoCA (Voices in Contemporary Art), a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of contemporary art.
Watt is currently a professor at Portland Community College, and is the coordinator of its Northview Gallery. She is represented by PDX Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, California, and Marc Straus Gallery in New York City, New York.[12]
Selected exhibitions
- Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. (2010)[13]
- Unsuspected Possibilities: Leonardo Drew, Sarah Oppenheimer, and Marie Watt. SITE Santa Fe. (2015)[14]
- Indelible Ink: Native Women, Printmaking, Collaboration. University of New Mexico Art Museum. (2020)[15]
- Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019. Whitney Museum of Art. (2019-2022)[16]
- Spirit in the Land. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. (2023)[17][18]
- Spirit in the Land. Pérez Art Museum Miami. (2024)[19]
- Marie Watt: Land Stitches Water Sky. Carnegie Museum of Art. (2024)[20]
Awards and fellowships
- 2005 Eiteljorg MuseumArtist Fellowship
- 2006 Joan Mitchell FoundationFellowship
- 2007 Anonymous Was A Woman Award
- 2009 Bonnie Bronson Fellowship[2]
Notes
- ^ a b c "Visiting Artist Series: Marie Watt." Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine University of Oregon: Visiting Artist Series: Marie Watt|School of Architecture and Allied Arts - University of Oregon. (retrieved May 10, 2011)
- ^ a b Tremblay, Gail. "Marie Watt." Museum of Contemporary Native Arts: Vision Project. (retrieved May 10, 2011)
- ^ "Marie Watt | The Ford Family Foundation". www.tfff.org. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ a b c Lovelace, Joyce (Spring 2017). "Gather Round". American Craft. 77: 36–43.
- ^ a b c "Marie Watt". Fabric Workshop and Museum. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
- ^ a b "Marie Watt". Laumeier Sculpture Park. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ "Marie Watt Studio". mkwatt.com. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ^ Marie Watt at PDX, PORT, Portland Art.net
- ^ a b Studio, Marie Watt. "About Transportation Object, Generous Ones, Trek | Marie Watt | Tacoma Art Museum". Archived from the original on February 6, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ "Marie Watt's Sewing Circle". OregonLive.com. April 5, 2008. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ "Blanket Stories at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's new campus". Marie Watt Studio. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
- ^ "Visiting Artist Lecture: Marie Watt | School of Art + Design". artdesign.uoregon.edu. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
- ^ "Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection" (PDF). Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "Unsuspected Possibilities". sitesantafe.org. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "Indelible Ink: Native Women, Printmaking, Collaboration – UNM Art Museum". Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019". whitney.org. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "Spirit in the Land". Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-938989-45-5.
- ^ "Spirit in the Land". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
- ^ "Marie Watt: LAND STITCHES WATER SKY". Carnegie Museum of Art. Retrieved March 4, 2024.