Marie Watt 96MFA leads collaborative art projects influenced by her indigenous roots.
Robin Cembalest ’82, an arts journalist and editorial consultant, was the longtime executive editor of
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Marie Watt ’96MFA, who creates art from cloth, invites others to sew along with her. “I like to say I set the table and I invite people to come,” she says. View full image
Exhibiting over the last year in the Smithsonian, the Whitney, the Yale University Art Gallery, and several commercial galleries, Marie Watt ’96MFA has gained steady visibility. This May the artist, a member of the Seneca Nation with German-Scots ancestry, opens her biggest show to date. The Denver Art Museum will feature her sculptures, wall hangings, and large-scale installation works alongside those of Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, and European), in a show called Each-Other. Both artists, who are known for collaborative artmaking, will collaborate on a new, co