Visiting Artist Lecture Series: RYAN! FEDDERSEN
SFCC Lecture: Thursday, May 23, 2024
Time: 1:00-2:00 Location: sn-w’ey’-mn Building 24, Room 110
Address: 3410 W. Whistalks Way Spokane, WA 99224
EWU Lecture: Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:00 Location: Art Building, Room 116
Address: 22 7th St, Cheney, WA 99004
About the Artist: RYAN! Elizabeth Feddersen specializes in creating compelling site-specific installations and public artworks which invite people to consider our relationships to history, culture, the land, and our non-human-kin. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Cornish College of the Arts in 2009, and is now based in Tacoma, Washington. Feddersen grew up in Wenatchee and is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, from the Okanogan and Arrow Lakes bands, and of mixed European descent. Her practice focuses on creative problem solving to address social issues through visual allegories that provide opportunities for exploration, introspection, and epiphany. She investigates creative strategies to activate engagement through interactive materials, community sourced content, social practice, fun and humor. These approaches enable her work to start conversations about a broad spectrum of subjects and promote collective learning. Feddersen has created large-scale site-specific pieces and interactive installations throughout North America and has a growing body of permanent artworks in the public realm.