Joe Feddersen, a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes lives and works in Omak, WA. A faculty member at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA from 1989 until his retirement in 2009, he was granted Faculty Emeritus Status. He was designated a Luminary Legacy from the Museum of Northwest Art in 2018. His work has been featured in numerous national exhibitions including: Weaving Past into Present: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking at the International Print Center, NY, NY, Continuum 12 Artists: Joe Feddersen, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution at the George Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY; The Renwick Invitational: Honors and Burdens, Washington DC, The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Native Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2023. The Museum of Art and Culture of Spokane will open a new retrospective in the Fall of 2024. His work speaks to aspects of the land and a personal awareness of our surroundings.