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Marie Watt: Sun Drinks White: 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS.

Past exhibition
24 March - 30 July 2023
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Marie Watt installation view from the exhibition Sun Drinks White, March 24 – July 30, 2023. Image courtesy of Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and photographer Ed Schempf.
Marie Watt installation view from the exhibition Sun Drinks White, March 24 – July 30, 2023. Image courtesy of Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and photographer Ed Schempf.

The title of this exhibition is borrowed from a poem titled "Haiku Journey" by Indigenous writer, photographer, and scholar Kimberly Blaeser. The poem is structured in four parts, each representing one of the four seasons. This section of Blaeser’s poem reflects upon winter, and her words conjure the brisk feeling of the

 

season’s icy air.

ground painted in frost

thirsty morning sun drinks white

leaves rust golds return

 

Based in Portland, OR, Marie Watt (b. 1967) is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians with German-Scot ancestry. Watt holds an MFA from Yale University as well as degrees from Willamette University and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings; in it, she explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling. Watt's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian among others.

 

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  • Image courtesy of Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and photographer Ed Schempf.
    Image courtesy of Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and photographer Ed Schempf. 
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