collected the blankets over several years, including many Hudson's Bay point blankets that were given to Native Americans in trade by the Hudson's Bay Company during the 19th century. In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commissioned Watt to produce a site-specific artwork for their Seattle campus. The work, entitled Blanket Stories: Matriarch, Guardian and Seven Generations, is a 14-foot column of wool blankets from all over the world and is located in the building's lobby. Describing how the materials fit this specific location, Watt wrote, "It's the first column I've made with the explicit goal of collecting and integrating blankets from around the world, echoing the Foundation's global mission; the column will be constructed of reclaimed blankets and reclaimed cedar, in resonance with the campus' goal of attaining LEED Gold certification." In 2014, 350 people contributed to an outdoor sculpture at Tacoma Art Museum. The towers she made were cast in bronze and she posted a micro-website with stories behind each blanket. Watt listens to her material and pulls from a deep sense of community and narrative to create works with history. Her works are both figurative and abstract. Watt is currently a professor at Portland Community College, and is the coordinator of its Northview Gallery. Selected exhibitions Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. (2010) Unsuspected Possibilities: Leonardo Drew, Sarah Oppenheimer, and Marie Watt. SITE Santa Fe. (2015) Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019. Whitney Museum of Art. (2019-2022) Indelible Ink: Native Women, Printmaking, Collaboration. University of New Mexico Art Museum. (2020) Awards and fellowships 2005 Eiteljorg Museum Artist Fellowship 2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship 2007 Anonymous Was A Woman Award 2009 Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Notes External links KPSU Art Talk interview with Marie Watt Oregon Art Beat: Sculptor Marie Watt In Conversation with Marie Watt: A New Coyote Tale 1967 births Living people Native American installation artists Native American printmakers Artists from Portland, Oregon Seneca people Willamette University alumni Yale School of Art alumni Institute of American Indian Arts alumni 21st-century Native Americans American women installation artists American installation artists American women printmakers Portland Community College alumni Native American women artists 21st-century American women artists 21st-century Native American women