The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Blanket Stories Continuum (Book 1)
2007
(American, b. 1967, enrolled Seneca Nation)
printer
(American, active 21st century)
publisher
Image: 38.6 x 56.3 cm (15 3/16 x 22 3/16 in.); Sheet: 56.3 x 76 cm (22 3/16 x 29 15/16 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Tamarind 07-301
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Marie Watt considers blankets to be markers of one’s life, since they frame many of life’s moments from sleep, birth, and love to sickness and death.Description
Seneca artist Marie Watt’s sculptural practice often incorporates blankets she has gathered from her community, which hold the memories and stories of those who owned them, as well as Iroquois creation stories. Blanket Stories Continuum (Book 1) consists of texts comprising the poignant stories she gathered from community members who donated blankets to her projects. Watt composed the texts in a crossed pattern to mimic the weave of a blanket.- New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2023-April 14, 2024).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.95