Natasha Wheat Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Event Details: People and Places: A Symposium on Public Practices in Honor of Ann Chamberlain . 2021-11-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720043000/http://activeweb.sfai.edu/newsEvents/eventDetails.aspx?Channel=%2FChannels%2FCampus%20Wide&WorkflowItemID=c13e74ea-d194-456f-a5eb-ce953a0dbb23 . July 20, 2011 .
  2. Web site: Three Young Artists Weigh in on Personal Style and the Spring 2014 Collections. November 8, 2013 .
  3. Web site: Serving, Cooking, Giving It Away: Food, Art, and the Places in Between.
  4. Web site: The creativity beyond disability. November 5, 2009.
  5. Web site: Sharp Darts: Grin and Bear It. May 17, 2007 .