Marie Watt: Collaboration can be more than a strategy.
Marie Watt’s work is about community involvement. It needs it to survive, and in her small but potent retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem right now, each element speaks to a greater company of bodies than Watt’s own.
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Read moreMarie Watt was featured in Cowboys & Indians Magazine.
"Her project today is a snapshot of what she’s best known for: using humble everyday objects as touchstones, blankets in particular. Since she first rummaged through the city’s thrift stores in 2003, scavenging for wool blankets, anything around $5 apiece to make the totemlike tower sculptures of stacked blankets, she has relied on reclaimed objects as a primary medium for her artwork. Beyond that, her process is largely collaborative. That may mean working with a printmaker, like she’s doing today, or gathering blankets and their individual histories from friends and strangers, and weaving that element into her pieces, too."
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