The artist Holly Ward makes work that has run a course through a retro optimism towards a darker, more anxious meditation on our collective future. Ward’s pieces are constructed across mediums, using sculpture, multi-media installation, architecture, video and drawing. Her work produces material investigations as tools for an audience to deeper analyze late-stage capitalism. Ward acquired an MFA (Studio) from the University of Guelph in 2006, a BFA (Interdisciplinary Studio) from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, and a BA (English Major, Fine Arts Minor), from the University of New Brunswick.
Read MoreLike the sacred trickster coyote of Indigenous plateau lore, the pieces that RYAN! Feddersen create make us feel empathy while modeling to us our missteps, so that we may choose better for ourselves. RYAN! Feddersen (b. 1984, Wenatchee, Washington) is a mixed-media installation artist who conceives large-scale, site-specific pieces which use interactivity to create opportunities for personal introspection and discovery in the local community. RYAN! is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, and descendant of the Okanagan and Arrow Lakes peoples.
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