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