Watie White
Watie White is an Omaha-based painter, printmaker, and public artist. His studio and public practice have created site-specific, socially engaged installations and murals that have led to collaborations with over a dozen schools and more than a hundred murals with non-profits and neighborhood communities throughout the Midwest.
His love affair with Italy began during a residency in Umbria’s Montecastello di Vibio. The first touch and taste of a tomato plucked from a small garden showed him that grace and beauty hide in plain things. The effect on his painting was profound. During regular returns to Italy, he practices art-making as a means of being more present to the richness of the Italian experience.
Watie’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN), Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, NE), Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE), the Telfair Museums (Savannah, GA), The Mint Museum (Charlotte. NC), The First Center for the Arts (Nashville, TN), and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens (Memphis, TN).
