Watts works as a designer in many areas, including a large executive office project that united her expertise in art with design. She was the project manager for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, Venues’ Aboriginal Art Program. She continues to work on commissioned work for various corporate and private collectors The largest installation is the Thunderbird sculpture, “Hetux” at Vancouver International Airport and her first outdoor work was “Kinship of Play” in the city of Parksville in 2010.

Connie Watts is a mixed media artist, designer and a business owner. She is of Nuu-chah-nulth, Gitxsan and Kwakwaka'wakw ancestry and lives in both Port Alberni and West Vancouver. Watts graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Intermedia, and has her Bachelor of Interior Design from the University of Manitoba.

She has shown her artwork in cities across Canada and the US such as New York, Portland, Seattle, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Of the numerous solo and group shows, a highlight includes the prestigious 2005 group show, Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 travelled from the Museum of Arts & Design in New York in 2005 throughout the United States.

Her solo exhibit Re-Generation, in Winnipeg at the Urban Shaman, was a culmination of her work to date, including her larger first work, “Vereinigung”.  It is the exploration of the fusion of past, present and future, to exist in a singular being of artwork.  Watts fuses the very essence of being a Northwest Coast Native to the ever-changing complex world in which we occupy.  The innovative fusion of materials to the tactile state of being is evident in all of the works in the show.