Marie Watt | Piedmont Arts

Marie Watt is included in Words Matter & Untold History: Native American Works at Piedmont Arts.

"Featuring works on paper by contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition underscores the richness and diversity of the contemporary Indigenous experience told through the medium of printmaking.

The works are linked by the belief that words have immeasurable power, particularly when reckoning with how written language has been weaponized against Indigenous people throughout the history of the Americas.

The exhibit introduces several contemporary Native American artists who have worked in the medium of printmaking, including Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Demian Diné Yazhi (Diné/Navajo), Marie Watt (Seneca), Larry McNeil (Tlingit), and others. All artists represented in the exhibition have chosen to incorporate text into their images, using the language of the colonizers of their land to tell their own stories. In this way, words play a powerful role in reclaiming a lost history and adding to the incomplete American narrative. In doing so, they also offer messages of hope, humor and resilience."

For more information: https://www.piedmontarts.org/calendar/event.cfm?eID=1428

Words Matter & Untold History: Native American Works
February 1, 2025 - March 15, 2025

Piedmont Arts
215 Starling Avenue
Martinsville, Virginia 24112