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JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
Wiese Collages, Stitches Storylines At Eli Whitney Open Studios, Jisu Sheen
Around 2003, elementary schooler Katharen Wiese visited Kearney, Nebraska, where she saw flocks of sandhill cranes pausing on their cross-country journey, an annual phenomenon some scientists call The Great Migration. . .
Artist Interview: Katharen Wiese, Wiese's new multimedia installation, A Great Migration
Over 500,000 sandhill cranes migrate every year to the Platte River in Nebraska. Artist Katharen Wiese, a Nebraska native and 2024 Yale MFA graduate, saw something more in this than a yearly natural event – she saw an analogy for the flight of African Americans to the North during the 20th century.
L. Kent Wolgamott: Exhibition presents striking portraits of Black Nebraskans
The title of her Kiechel Fine Art exhibition, “i made the cornrows: portraits of Black Nebraskans,” is a takeoff on an experience artist Katharen Wiese had at age 15 and a pun on the crop that is most associated with the state she calls home….
Kat Wiese and her multimedia painting, “if a black woman is afraid of the dark, is she afraid of a shadow or herself",” which will be on display at “Black Love, Black Futures” at the South of Downtown Art Hub.
Gwyneth Roberts, Journal Star
Cindy Lange-Kubick: Black Love, Black Futures and the powerful art of Kat Wiese
Kat Wiese and her multimedia painting, “If a Black Woman is Afraid of the Dark, is She Afraid of a Shadow or Herself?”, which will be on display in the show "Black Love, Black Futures" at the South of Downtown Art Hub.
photo courtesy of Vernée Norman
Suong Nguyen: Lincoln woman uses art to spread racial diversity awareness, Daily Nebraskan
Parallel Visions Makes Space for Nebraska's Artists of Color | #50StatesofArt