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 awarded Faculty Emeritus Status. In 2018, he was granted the MoNA Luminaries Legacy Award from the Museum of Northwest Art. His work was included in Weaving Past into Present: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking at the International Print Center, New York, Autumn 2015. He has been featured in numerous national exhibitions, including Continuum 12 Artists: Joe Feddersen, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution at the George Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY; Land Mark, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA; and was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition and monograph, Vital Signs, organized by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, OR and published by the University of Washington Press.

Upcoming exhibits include The Renwick Invitational: Honors and Burdens 2023, Washington DC, Forge Project 2023, NY, The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Native Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Here Now and Always, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers, NJ 2023.  The Museum of Art and Culture, Joe Feddersen Retrospective, Spokane WA 2024