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Marie Watt

Marie Watt (Born 1967) is active/lives in Oregon.  Marie Watt is known for Mixed-media conceptual artwork.

A multi-media* artist, Marie Watt uses blankets as a primary medium in her artwork because they are warm, enfolding, and infused with meaning unique to her Indian heritage.  She lives and has her studio in an industrial section of southeast Portland, Oregon.  Her studio was described in The Oregonian newspaper, April 4, 2008, as ". . . filled with towering stacks: Old woolen Pendleton blankets, scratchy army blankets, thrift-store finds that constitute her raw materials. Watt's finished blanket pieces, which have been exhibited in such places as the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, are frequently large -- covering entire walls -- and labor intensive, and so she often invites people to help her in their construction, through sewing circles."

Her parents have been Wyoming ranchers, and she is a duaghter of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation (Iroquois / Haudenosaunee).

Watt describes herself as "half Cowboy and half   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2951 characters.]  Artist bio

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