watt involves community effort when creating artworks her project blanket stories transportation object generous ones at the tacoma art museum involved creating large-scale installations out of blankets donated by the community not only are the blankets the medium but "watt believes that blankets provide access to social connections historical traditions and cross-cultural meanings" watt hosts sewing circles groups who gather and work such as with the piece forget me not mothers and sons in which they constructed portraits of servicemen and one woman from oregon killed in the iraqi war