Natasha Wheat | |
Birth Name: | Natasha Rose Wheat |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1981 |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California |
Nationality: | American |
Field: | Drawing, painting, sculpture, and performance |
Training: | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, |
Natasha Rose Wheat (bornOctober 25, 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives 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 at a factory where the people with disabilities were working. Wheat's longtime boyfriend is artist Jim Fairchild.[5]