Artwork copyright Joe Feddersen. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2024.

Artwork copyright Joe Feddersen. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2024.

Artwork copyright Joe Feddersen. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2024.

Artwork copyright Joe Feddersen. Exhibition view of "Joe Feddersen: Earth, Water, Sky" at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane, Fall 2024. Photo courtesy of Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, by Dean Davis, Davis Photography, Inc., 2024.

Sheltered From Night Rain, 1984

Joe Feddersen
American Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (born 1953)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

About the Artwork

Artist Joe Feddersen's two-paneled landscape 'Sheltered From Nightrain' is comprised of stylized and abstracted patterns evoking rainfall against the horizon. Feddersen states "my work deals with my relationship to my environment, whether past, present, future, remembered or dreamt."

This artwork is part of Beyond Blue Mountains, a collection that was curated by late Tlingit (Native Alaskan) artist Jim Schoppert. It presents the work of Native American artists of diverse heritage, ideas, materials, and styles. The collection takes an in-depth look at the artists’ unique voices and interpretations of tradition.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Washington State Arts Commission.

About the Artist

Feddersen was a professor of art at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Western Washington, from 1989 to 2009 and is Emeritus Faculty. He is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington in Seattle and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Feddersen lives and works in the small town of Omak, in Northeastern Washington. He was honored with a 2024 Washington State Governor's Arts and Heritage Award.