Natasha Wheat
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Natasha Wheat | |
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Born | Natasha Rose Wheat October 25, 1981 Los Angeles, California |
Nationality | American |
Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, |
Known for | drawing, painting, sculpture, and performance |
Natasha Wheat is an interdisciplinary artist who lives[citation needed] and works in the United States.[1]
Her works have been described as situational constructions,[2] often transforming her audience into co-participants in the work.[3]
She is the founder of Portland, Oregon based arts and urban farming project, Project Grow, an arts atelier for people with disabilities at the site of a factory.[4] It began in 2008 as an intervention into sweatshop type labor[citation needed] at a factory[citation needed] where the people with disabilities were working.[citation needed] Wheat's longtime boyfriend is artist Jim Fairchild.[5]
References[]
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20110720043000/http://activeweb.sfai.edu/newsEvents/eventDetails.aspx?Channel=%2FChannels%2FCampus%20Wide&WorkflowItemID=c13e74ea-d194-456f-a5eb-ce953a0dbb23. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2011. Missing or empty
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(help) - ^ "Three Young Artists Weigh in on Personal Style and the Spring 2014 Collections".
- ^ "Serving, Cooking, Giving It Away: Food, Art, and the Places in Between".
- ^ "The creativity beyond disability". November 5, 2009.
- ^ "Sharp Darts: Grin and Bear It".
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- Living people
- 1981 births
- Interdisciplinary artists
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
- American artist stubs