Community Printmaking Circle hosted by Marie Watt

Experiment, play, and learn how to make pressure prints with Marie Watt and professional printmakers! Together, we’ll create personal prints and optionally contribute to a future community-generated artwork for the art collections of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Oregon State Capitol. If you would like to donate your plate (or a print), it will be quilted together with other prints to make a larger composition that, like democracy, will explore the relationship between part and whole, individual and community, call and response.

Participants will be able to take home their prints as well as a reciprocal gift of a limited edition print created by Marie Watt.

• Take your print home the same day

• No experience necessary

• All ages welcome

• Come and go as you wish

• Bring a friend and invite others!

This project is a collaboration with Mullowney Printing and is made possible by Oregon’s Percent for Art in Public Places Program, managed by the Oregon Arts Commission.

About Marie Watt:

Marie Watt (she/her, b. 1967, Seattle, Wash.) is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians whose work draws on images and ideas from Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) protofeminism and Indigenous teachings. Her practice is interdisciplinary, incorporating printmaking, painting, textiles, and sculpture.

Watt holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University, has degrees from Willamette University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from Willamette University (2016). Selected collections include the The Obama Presidential Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of American Art. For more information, visit https://mariewattstudio.com/.

Please enter the Capitol through the State Street center entrance for this event.
Parking around the Capitol is free on weekends.

Everyone must pass through security screening to enter the building. No personal protection items, knives, multi-tools, or guns are allowed in the building, so please leave them in your car.

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