Natasha Wheat
Encyclopedia
Natasha Wheat is an internationally exhibiting interdisciplinary
, socially engaged artist
who lives and works in the United States
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Her works have been described as situational constructions , often using "food to transform her audience into co-participants in the work".
She recently performed a Claire Fontaine text work, singing it as Rock n' Roll in an event at The Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco.
In her exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, entitled Self Contained, Wheat constructed a temporary restaurant within the exhibition space of the Museum, and collaborated with chefs from underground supper clubs to create conceptual meals that included the tastes of Salty, Sour, Bitter, Numbing and Sweet.
She produced a series of artists books for this exhibition that people were able to read while they were visiting to the space. Visitors could also sit on sculptural seating made from orange crates and agricultural waste.
Wheat is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been interviewed by The Examiner, Art Practical, Bad at Sports
, The Oregonian
, and a number of other online periodicals.
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. It began in 2008 as an intervention into sweatshop type labor at a factory where the people with disabilities were working.
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She is a first generation American, with a mother from Panama, whom she described in an interview as "a folk artist who...was homeless in Los Angeles" while she was growing up.
Interdisciplinary arts
Interdisciplinary Arts is an academic department in the School of Media Arts at Columbia College Chicago. As one of the earliest interdisciplinary arts programs in the United States, it has been an incubator for new approaches towards art making that has shaped the development of arts professionals...
, socially engaged artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
who lives and works in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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Her works have been described as situational constructions , often using "food to transform her audience into co-participants in the work".
She recently performed a Claire Fontaine text work, singing it as Rock n' Roll in an event at The Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco.
In her exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, entitled Self Contained, Wheat constructed a temporary restaurant within the exhibition space of the Museum, and collaborated with chefs from underground supper clubs to create conceptual meals that included the tastes of Salty, Sour, Bitter, Numbing and Sweet.
She produced a series of artists books for this exhibition that people were able to read while they were visiting to the space. Visitors could also sit on sculptural seating made from orange crates and agricultural waste.
Wheat is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been interviewed by The Examiner, Art Practical, Bad at Sports
Bad at Sports
"Bad at Sports" is a weekly podcast about art and culture in Chicago and across the globe. It is currently the only surviving program about the Chicago Art Scene. Previous publications included the New Art Examiner, and the PBS program Art Chicago. However, as an Internet broadcast, it has...
, The Oregonian
The Oregonian
The Oregonian is the major daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850...
, and a number of other online periodicals.
She is the founder of Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
based arts and urban farming project, Project Grow
Project Grow
Project Grow is an Arts and urban farming program in Portland, Oregon.It exists at the Port City Development Center in North Portland. It is a program for people with developmental disabilities, and was mentioned in the Oregonian as the only program of its sort in the country .It was founded in...
, an arts atelier for people with disabilities at the site of a factory. It began in 2008 as an intervention into sweatshop type labor at a factory where the people with disabilities were working.
Personal Life
Wheat's longtime boyfriend is artist Jim FairchildJim Fairchild
Jim Fairchild is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He records under the name All Smiles.-Biography:...
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She is a first generation American, with a mother from Panama, whom she described in an interview as "a folk artist who...was homeless in Los Angeles" while she was growing up.