Coyote Now

This floor-to-ceiling interactive art installation by Washington-based indigenous artist RYAN! Feddersen brings Coyote into the modern day adventures of the 21st century. Feddersen invites visitors to color in the drawings using handmade crayons shaped to look like coyote bones.

Feddersen is known for her playful, humorous style that honors an indigenous perspective. Straddling the future and tradition, even the coloring implements are a part of the story. In the same Okanagan Tribal tales, Coyote can be brought back to life if any scrap of him (i.e. bones, fur, or body) remains after his death. Feddersen created the Coyote bones – handmade crayons– so that the drawings would symbolically become the fragments of Coyote’s remains needed to bring him back to life.