Watt was awarded an Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art in 2005.
Born in 1967 to a Wyoming rancher and Seneca mother, Marie Watt is an artist who has described herself as half cowboy, half Indian. Deeply studied in art, Watt says she "consciously draw[s] from indigenous design principles, oral traditions and personal experience to shape the inner logic of the work I make." Much of her work, including that created at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, captures the texture and stories inherent in everyday objects.