Marie Watt

Marie Watt’s work celebrates her Indigenous American heritage and reexamines the objects and traditions associated with Native American cultures. “My work explores human stories and rituals implicit in everyday objects. I consciously draw from Indigenous design principles, oral traditions, and personal experience to shape the inner logic of the work I make” she says.

Source: Lewis & Clark College Gallery of Contemporary Art

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Marie Watt

Marie Watt (b. 1967) is an American artist. Her work draws from history, biography, protofeminism, and Indigenous principles, and addresses the interaction of the arc of history with the intimacy of memory. She uses materials that are conceptually attached to narrative: in particular, exploring the stories connected with commonplace woolen blankets, cedar, and iron.

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Marie Watt, Blanket Stories: Textile Society, R.R. Stewart, Ancient One, Reclaimed wool blankets, cotton quilts, synthetic afghans, Pakistani blankets, cedar and structurally engineered steel for interior support, 1.7 ft x 1.7 ft x 34 ft Approx weight: 2500 lbs,

Marie Watt, Blanket Series: Continuum (Book I / Book III), Six-color lithograph printed on natural Sekishu on white Arches paper, Unframed: 15 1/4 x 22 1/4in. (38.7 x 56.5cm), Collection of Art in Embassies, Washington, D.C.; In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.

Marie Watt, Lodge, 2005, Woodblock print, Overall: 16 x 14in. (40.6 x 35.6cm),

Marie Watt, Mend, 2005, Woodblock print, Overall: 16 x 14in. (40.6 x 35.6cm),

Marie Watt, Ladder, 2005, Woodblock print, Overall: 16 x 14in. (40.6 x 35.6cm),

Marie Watt, Door, 2005, Woodblock print, Overall: 16 x 14in. (40.6 x 35.6cm),

Marie Watt, Blanket Series: Continuum (Book I / Book III), Six-color lithograph printed on natural Sekishu on white Arches paper, Overall: 31 1/2 x 39 x 1 1/2 in. (80 x 99.1 x 3.8 cm), Courtesy of Art in Embassies, Washington, D.C.

Marie Watt, Blanket Series: Continuum (Book I / Book III), Six-color lithograph printed on natural Sekishu on white Arches paper, Overall: 31 1/2 x 39 x 1 1/4 in. (80 x 99.1 x 3.2 cm), Collection of Art in Embassies, Washington, D.C.; In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.

Marie Watt, Blanket Stories: Continuum (Book I / Book III), Six-color lithograph printed on natural Sekishu on white Arches paper, Overall: 31 1/2 x 39 x 1 1/4 in. (80 x 99.1 x 3.2 cm), Collection of Art in Embassies, Washington, D.C.; In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.

Marie Watt, Skywalker/Skyscraper (Babel), Reclaimed wool blankets and steel, Overall: 96 x 20 x 22in. (243.8 x 50.8 x 55.9 cm); beam & base: 175 lb. (79.4 kg), Courtesy of the artist and PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon

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