ESSAYS

Like 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.