Joe Feddersen is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. Feddersen’s work spans glass, printmaking, woven works, and installation. He served as a member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College from 1989 through 2009 and now is recognized as Faculty Emeritus.

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, Washington; 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, Oregon, and published by the University of Washington Press. His work has also been exhibited at The Renwick, Forge Project, the National Gallery of Art, and the Zimmerli Museum. Feddersen lives and works in Omak, Washington.

John Feodorov is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sound, video, and installation. His practice engages and confronts the viewer through questioning assumptions about identity, spirituality, and place within the context of late-stage capitalism. Feodorov’s work has been exhibited at the Kennedy Museum at the Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, the Cue Foundation, New York, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, and is the subject of a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. He was also featured in the first season of Art21 in 2001.

Feodorov’s work is in the permanent collection of prestigious institutions including the United States Library of Congress and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has received grants and residencies at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, the Basil H. Alkazzi Foundation, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and the GAP Grant from the Artist Trust. Feodorov lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

Linda Infante Lyons is a contemporary painter and holds a BA from Whitman College. The Alutiiq/Sugpiaq artist has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, 2020, Rasmuson Foundation Fellowship, 2016 and 2020, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellowship, 2018, Santa Fe Arts Institute and the Institute of American Indian Art Fellowship, 2015, and was a 2023 Bennett Prize finalist.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is part of the permanent collections of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, the Pratt Museum, the Alaska State Museum, the Alaska Contemporary Art Bank and the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her work is featured in the exhibition, Salmon Culture at the Anchorage Museum. Lyons lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska.

James Luna was of Luiseño, Puyukitchum, Ipai, and Mexican heritage and lived on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in Pauma Valley, California, from 1975 until his death on March 4, 2018. Luna taught studio art at the University of California, Davis; University of California San Diego; and University of California Irvine.

Luna has been the subject of more than 41 solo exhibitions and has participated in over 85 group exhibitions. His works and performances have appeared in the New Museum (1990, New York), Museum of Modern Art (2009, New York), San Francisco Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Museum of Contemporary Native Art (2015, 2018, Santa Fe), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (1987, 2019), and Whitney Museum of American Art (1993, 2019, New York). In 2005, he was selected as the first Sponsored Artist of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presented at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005).

Luna was the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Bessie Award (1991), an Intercultural Film/Video Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation (1992), a Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium video grant (1995), an Andrea Frank Foundation Grant (2000), an Arts International Grant (2000), a Distinguished Artist Award and Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship for Native American Fine Art (2007), a Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2010), a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (2015), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2017). In 2012, Luna was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Brenda Mallory is a multidisciplinary artist working across mediums of textile, reclaimed materials, glass, and paper. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Mallory received a BA in Linguistics & English from UCLA and a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University. Texture and repeated rhythmic forms are instrumental to Mallory’s abstract compositions. Using mainly reclaimed materials, she explores ideas of dominion, disruption and repair, and interconnections in long-established systems in nature and human cultures.Mallory has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, Ford Family Foundation, and the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Awards include the Hallie Ford Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum Contemporary Native Art Fellowship, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist and Mentor Artist Fellowships, and the Ucross Native Fellowship. Residencies include Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency, Anderson Ranch, Ucross, Pulp & Deckle Papermaking, and Bullseye Glass. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Portland Art Museum, Heard Museum, and Hallie Ford Museum. Mallory lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Nora Naranjo Morse is a sculptor and installation artist mainly working in clay and mixed materials. Her work spans pottery, large-scale installation, public art, and figure work. Morse makes specific reference to the earth as an evolving organic whole by employing natural and found materials in her practice. Morse has been the recipient of many fellowships and awards including the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellowship, Eiteljorg Fellowship, the Dubin Fellowship, the SWAIA Fellowship, and residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Museum of Northern Arizona. 

Morse’s work has been in numerous exhibitions and is in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions including the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Morse lives and works in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.

Abigail Romanchak is a Native Hawaiian artist and educator. She received a BFA and MFA in printmaking from the University of Hawaii, Manoa and has held teaching positions at The Contemporary Museum, The Honolulu Museum of Art, Punahou School, The Maui Arts and Cultural Center and The Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center. Romanchak has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, as well as throughout the state of Hawai’i. In the fall of 2017, Romanchak received a solo show with fellow printmaker, Charles Cohan at The Honolulu Museum of Art. Most recently, Romanchak exhibited a new body of work with the Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Center for ‘Ae Kai – A Culture Lab of Convergence.

Romanchak received the Ellen Craig Choy Award, as most outstanding artist, in the 2010 Biennial IX at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. In 2015, Romanchak was awarded the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Native Hawaiian Artist Fellowship and in 2016, Romanchak was a Joan Mitchell Fellowship nominee. Her work is in public and private collections including, The White House, The Smithsonian Institution, The Obama Presidential Library, The Australia National Museum, Hawaii State Art Museum, The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Hanapi Foundation, John Hara Associates, Inc. Architects, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Tori Richard, The Four Seasons, The Ritz Carlton and Nordstrom. Romanchak lives and works in Maui, Hawai’i.

Anna Tsouhlarakis is a transdisciplinary artist of Greek and Creek descent and is an enrolled citizen of the Navajo Nation. Tsouhlarakis received her BA from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American studies and Studio Art and an MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. Tsouhlarakis has participated in various art residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College 2019-2020. Tsouhlarakis’s work has been exhibited at NEON Foundation in Athens, Greece, White Frame in Basel, Switzerland, Rush Arts in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, the National Portrait Gallery, and a recent solo exhibition at MCA Denver.

Tsouhlarakis is a Creative Capital Award recipient for 2021. Other awards include fellowships from the Harpo Foundation, the Eiteljorg Museum, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and most recently, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Tsouhlarakis is an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Tsouhlarakis lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

Dyani White Hawk multidisciplinary artist. White Hawk earned a MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011) and BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2008). She served as Gallery Director and Curator for the All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis from 2011-2015. White Hawk has been the recipient of many prestigious fellowships and grants including the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2024 Creative Capital grant, 2023 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Academy of Arts and Letters Award, 2021 and 2013 McKnight Foundation Fellowship, 2020 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize, 2019 United States Artists Fellowship in Visual Art, Eiteljorg Fellowship for Contemporary Art, Jerome Hill Artists Fellowship, Forecast for Public Art Mid-Career Development Grant, 2018 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, 2017 and 2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowships and 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. She has participated in residencies in Australia, Russia, and Germany.

Her work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Denver Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Tweed Museum of Art, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Akta Lakota Museum among other public and private collections. White Hawk lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Shirod Younker is a multidisciplinary sculptor, educator, and community organizer. He is a citizen of the Coquille Indian Tribe and is also Miluk Coos, Umpqua, and Visayan. Younker received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Oregon State University and has sustained his practice for three decades. For over twenty years, Younker has managed and advised The Journeys in Creativity: Explorations in Native American Art Program, a Native teen residency program that promotes and perpetuates Indigenous arts and communities to create pathways for college readiness and advanced study. As a practicing artist, Younker uses their work to foster and create space for Indigenous visual lexicons within a contemporary context to build support for the recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems and values. His work is in the collection of the Nasomah Memorial in Bandon, Oregon, The Mill Hotel and Casino, The City of Portland Building, The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Forest Science Complex and the Ina Haws at Oregon State University, Oregon Historical Society Museum, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, and the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at The Evergreen State College. Younker lives and works in both Portland and Warm Springs, Oregon.