Marie Watt

Marie Watt began her formal education at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, and then pursued an associate of fine arts in museum studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe. She earned an MFA from Yale University in 1996. Her work was awarded the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Memorial Award in 2005, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2006, and she was artist-in-residence at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia in 2008. Watt is currently the subject of a retrospective Marie Watt: Lodge organized by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University.