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Marie Watt | Hudson River Museum

14 February, 2025
Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scot, b. 1967). Companion Species (Remembering Song), 2021. Reclaimed wool blankets, embroidery floss, thread. Gochman Family Collection. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo: Kevin McConnel.

Marie Watt is included in Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time at the Hudson River Museum.

Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time explores the nuanced layers of the past, present, and future within contemporary art by Native American, Alaska Native, First Nations, and Métis artists. Tapping personal memory, ancestral artistic practices, history, and Indigenous Futurism, their works center intentionality, design, and materiality.

For more information:https://www.hrm.org/exhibitions/smoke-in-our-hair/

Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time
February 14–August 31, 2025

Hudson River Museum
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10701
(914) 963-4550

Marie Watt | Piedmont Arts

1 February, 2025
Marie Watt by Josue Rivas 2021 (1)

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

Iceberg in Fragile Beauty also featured in The New York Times

4 March, 2025
Newspaper article on giant iceberg floating away from Antarctica
The gigantic iceberg, named A23a, that has been floating away from Antarctica the last four decades has beached itself on the continental shelf near the island of South Georgia, a journey of 1600 miles. Most of that distance has been covered in the last five years though, as A23a was grounded in the Weddell Sea until 2020. The iceberg A23a is bigger than the state of Rhode Island and made up of about 1300 square miles of ice. The New York Times article was published on the first day of artist Susan Seubert's exhibition, a nice coincidence, but also a nod to the fact that the world is watching the polar regions more closely than ever before, knowing they are forecasts of our future, the boundaries highlighting the rapid climate change enveloping us all.

Fragile Beauty: A Conversation with Susan Seubert and Dr. M Jackson

29 March, 2025
Susan Seubert, Cracked Fast Ice, Svalbard, 2017, Cracked Fast Ice, Svalbard, 2017

Join us on March 29, 2025 for a closing talk with artist Susan Seubert and Dr. M Jackson, a geographer, glaciologist, and science communicator exploring the intersections of photography, glaciology, and climate change.

Dr. M Jackson is a geographer, glaciologist, and science communicator exploring the intersections of societal transformation, glaciology, and climate change. Jackson is a National Geographic Society Explorer, TED Fellow, and three-time U.S. Fulbright Scholar. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, a Master of Science degree from the University of Montana, and serves as a U.S. Fulbright Ambassador and an Expert for National Geographic Expeditions. Jackson is an active public speaker and author of the award-winning books Ice to Water (2024), The Ice Sings Back (2023), The Secret Lives of Glaciers (2019) and While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change (2015).

Fragile Beauty: A Conversation with Susan Seubert and Dr. M Jackson
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Please RSVP to info@pdxcontemporaryart.com

Heather Watkins | Artspace Lake Oswego

8 March, 2025

Heather Watkins;'s is one of nine artist featured in the exhibition HER FORMATION, on view February 21st—April 11th, 2025.

"The current exhibition at Artspace, HER FORMATION, exhibits the work of nine women artists whose enigmatic artworks offer visions of survival and even imaginative possibility in times of upheaval.

The artists include Marjan Anvari, Kirsten Bauer, Francesca Capone, Sally Jablonsky, Emily Katz, Frankie Krupa-Vahdani, Zhang Mao, Heather Watkins and Amanda Wojick.

Each artist makes sense of the complexity of the world through artistic acts of alteration, abstraction, and material transformation. Their bold, often brightly saturated compositions respond to limitations through a wide variety of approaches, whether limitations of their embodied experience, cultural traditions, or autocratic systems of power. The artists’ works are uncompromising in their creative power, defiant, and even playful."

For more information: https://artscouncillo.org/her-formation

Storm Tharp | VERS

12 February, 2025

We are please to announce the release of Storm Tharp's first monograph: VERS.

VERS is a lavish, 336-page, full color, case-bound book designed by Heather Watkins. The monograph includes a collection of never-before published writings by the artist, as well as an interview between Tharp and filmmaker Todd Haynes, an essay by Tokyo art consultant Chihiro Watanabe, and a preface and essay by Cooley Gallery director and curator Stephanie Snyder. VERS is published by the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, 2025, and is supported by The Ford Family Foundation, Roseburg, OR.

James Lavadour and Marie Watt | Indigenous Identities: Here, Now, & Always at the Zimmerli

8 January, 2025
James Lavadour, Stick House, 2006, lithograph, 22 1/2" x 30"

James Lavadour and Marie Watt are both included in Indigenous Identities: Here, Now, & Always curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) opening February 1 at the Zimmerli Art Museum.

"This exhibition, curated by the renowned artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), provides a provocative survey of contemporary Native American art across media. A prolific curator, Quick-to-See Smith has curated over thirty shows, including The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C (2023). Indigenous Identities features ninety living artists that represent over fifty distinct Indigenous nations and communities from across North America and includes painting, works on paper, photography, ceramics, beadwork, weaving, sculpture, installation, and video."

For more information: https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibition/indigenous-identities-here-…

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