Kat Wiese

When interdisciplinary artist Kat Wiese watched a documentary about Sandhill cranes, she was struck by the similarities between their migratory patterns and the Great Migration of the 20th century, in which millions of southern Black Americans moved north to escape Jim Crow. Wiese, who grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and recently finished her MFA program at Yale School of Art, is part of that legacy: her great-grandfather moved to Detroit from Alabama to seek work and a while later, in 1969, her grandparents and her mother moved to Nebraska.