Forget-Me-Not: Mothers and Sons;
Forget-me-not: Blossom
High Gallery
Jan 29-April 25, 2010

Marie Watt, a 2008 winner of the PDX Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, fabricates sculptural webs and wall hangings to show the interconnectivity of storytelling, history and collective memory. In Forget-me-not, she honors the lives lost in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan with embroidered portraits. Her fabric webs call attention to the invisible human bonds ever-present between strangers, neighbors, acquaintances friends and family. While at the Museum, she will add portraits of Montanans lost in the current wars and include sewing circle workshops and storytelling. Born in 1967 to the son of Wyoming ranchers and a daughter of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation, Watt identifies herself as “half Cowboy and half Indian.”

For more information on Marie Watt, go to www.mkwatt.com