A Great Migration — Kat Wiese Artist

Now on view - November 2024

Each year over 500,000 sandhill cranes migrate to the Platte River in Nebraska. A Great Migration, uses the common language describing both the movement of African Americans between 1910 and 1970 and the northern migration of Sandhill cranes to explore the ideas of assimilation, possibility, and collective actions shared across cultures. This work was generated through the Yale Peabody summer art fellowship sponsored by Yale School of Art and the Peabody.

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A Great Migration [installation view]

shot by Pat Garcia

A Great Migration

A Great Migration, is a new multimedia gallery at the Yale Peabody Natural History Museum by Kat Wiese, which uses the common language describing both the movement of African Americans between 1910 and 1970 and the northern migration of Sandhill cranes to explore the ideas of assimilation, possibility, and collective actions shared across cultures. These frames were made using found materials, lace, fabrics, digital prints and quilting. The hands you see in the stop motion were made from tracings collected from dozens of museum visitors.

A Great Migration [sculpture installation]

1 To move and stand still [middle], 2024, Handmade paper, plastics, fabric, hand embroidery, digital prints, and collaborative hand tracings collected from Peabody visitors. Crochet made in collaboration with Ellika Edelman.

2 Stalk [left] , 2024 Sewn plastics and handmade paper, reclaimed doilies, leather gloves, embroidery, foam, polyfill, crochet and American flag remnants.

3 Stalk and vine [right], 2024 Deconstructed lamp shade, cut lace, and crochet. Crochet made in collaboration with Ellika Edelman.

shot by Pat Garcia

Installation view 3

shot by Pat Garcia

Install shot

shot by Pat Garcia

installation view

shot by Pat Garcia

installation view 2

shot by Pat Garcia

Stalk and vine [detail]

2024

Deconstructed lamp shade, cut lace, and crochet. Crochet made in collaboration with Ellika Edelman.

shot by Pat Garcia

Stalk and vine [detail 2]

2024

Deconstructed lamp shade, cut lace, and crochet. Crochet made in collaboration with Ellika Edelman.

shot by Pat Garcia

To move and stand still [detail]

2024

Handmade paper, plastics, fabric, hand embroidery, digital prints, and collaborative hand tracings collected from Peabody visitors. Crochet made in collaboration with Ellika Edelman.

shot by Pat Garcia

Stalk [detail]

2024

Sewn plastics and handmade paper, reclaimed doilies, leather gloves, embroidery, foam, polyfill, crochet and American flag remnants.

shot by Pat Garcia

Stalk [detail 2]

2024 Sewn plastics and handmade paper, reclaimed doilies, leather gloves, embroidery, foam, polyfill, crochet and American flag remnants.

shot by Pat Garcia

To move and stand still [detail 3]

2024

Handmade paper, plastics, fabric, hand embroidery, digital prints, and collaborative hand tracings collected from Peabody visitors. Crochet made in collaboration with Ellika Edelman.

shot by Pat Garcia

To move and stand still [detail 4]

2024

Handmade paper, plastics, fabric, hand embroidery, digital prints, and collaborative hand tracings collected from Peabody visitors. Crochet made in collaboration with Ellika Edelman.

shot by Pat Garcia

To move and stand still [detail 5]

2024

Handmade paper, plastics, fabric, hand embroidery, digital prints, and collaborative hand tracings collected from Peabody visitors. Crochet made in collaboration with Ellika Edelman.

shot by Pat Garcia

To move and stand still [detail 8]

2024

Handmade paper, plastics, fabric, hand embroidery, digital prints, and collaborative hand tracings collected from Peabody visitors. Crochet made in collaboration with Ellika Edelman.

shot by Pat Garcia

Installation shot 5

shot by Pat Garcia