In Conversation: John Feodorov and Faith Brower

Join us for an evening of conversation with artist John Feodorov and curator Faith Brower as part of the exhibition Memories of a Suburban Ind’n | John Feodorov. Feodorov and Brower will reflect on the exhibition, share insights into their processes as artist and curator, and hold a Q&A with the audience. Free and open to the public.

John Foeodorov

Of mixed Navajo/Diné (enrolled) and Euro-American heritage, John Feodorov grew up in the suburbs of Southern California in the city of Whittier, just east of Los Angeles. He and his family made annual visits to his grandparent's homestead in New Mexico as a child. The time he spent there continues to influence his creative practice. The disparate values and beliefs that the artist experienced between suburban life and time on the reservation evoked serious questions that echo throughout much of the work. Feodorov's art and music engage and confront the viewer through questioning assumptions about identity, spirituality, and place within the context of late capitalism. Feodorov is the Associate Professor of Art at Fairhaven College at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.

Faith Brower

Faith Brower served as curator for the exhibition Memories of a Suburban Ind’n | John Feodorov and was recently appointed as the Frye Museum’s first Director & Curator of Collections. Most recently, Ms. Brower has served as the Haub Curator of Western American Art at Tacoma Art Museum where she developed the [re]Frame project to expand the narratives regarding the art of the American West through a guest curator program that received multiple grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Brower also led for TAM the development of the award-winning catalog, Warhol and the West, and co-curated its nationally touring exhibition. She has curated more than 25 exhibitions, including On Native Land: Landscapes from the Haub Family Collection, Immigrant Artists and the American West, Native Portraiture: Power and Perception, and Momentum: New Acquisitions from the Collection. She has worked with a range of contemporary artists on exhibitions and commissions, including Nikesha Breeze, RYAN! Feddersen, Allan McCollum, Camille Patha, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Marie Watt, among others.