UW Press is proud to copublish and distribute books and catalogs for acclaimed art exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Whether you’re planning a visit or experiencing from afar, these titles offer deeper insight into the works and themes explored in each show.
Joe Feddersen: Earth, Water, Sky
Joe Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) is a nationally renowned American artist whose work is informed by his relationship to place, specifically the Plateau region between the Cascade Range and Rocky Mountains. Based on the first major retrospective of his work, which opened at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Joe Feddersen: Earth, Water, Sky showcases the artist’s four-decade artistic output—spanning printmaking, weaving, glass, and ceramics. Essays by the editors, heather ahtone and Rachel Allen, explore an Indigenous perspective on landscape and how Plateau-Native cosmological viewpoints manifest in Feddersen’s work. A selection of poetry by authors from the artist’s past collaborations as well as a biography highlighting interviews from Feddersen’s friends, family, and students are also included.
Now on view at the High Desert Museum through January 18, 2026
Objects of the Elements: Elsa Thoresen
The work of Seattle artist Elsa Thoresen (1906–1994) is presented in the first American exhibition of this important painter’s work, complemented by a catalog of the same name, Objects of the Elements: Elsa Thoresen, edited by curator David F. Martin. The artist and her husband were at the forefront of the Surrealist movement in Scandinavia, where Elsa developed a unique personal visual language based on natural forms such as driftwood and fantasy landscapes. After her divorce in 1953, Elsa returned to the US and relocated to Seattle the following year. Although she had tremendous success as a Surrealist abroad, her Northwest paintings concentrated on lyrical, biomorphic abstractions which she produced until her death.
Now on view at Cascadia Art Museum through March 8, 2026.
Nordic Noir: Works on Paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson
Across the pond, Nordic Noir at the British Museum spotlights graphic work by Nordic artists from the postwar period to the present, offering a “smorgasbord of surprises” (The Financial Times). The accompanying publication, edited by curator Jennifer Ramkalawon, celebrates several Nordic artists who examine the fundamental themes of nature, the environment, identity, and heritage through visually arresting and beautiful prints and drawings. The book also features works by contemporary Nordic artists who are constantly challenging the idea of the “perfect” Scandinavian social world often projected by these countries to outsiders.
Now on view at the British Museum through March 22, 2026.
Brilliant Color: Glass Innovation and Design
With over 200 vibrant photographs, Brilliant Color: Glass Innovation and Design explores a glassmaking color revolution and its creators, who were inspired by nature and chemistry. Included are works by and discussions of glass designers such as Frederick Carder, Émile Gallé, Joseph Locke, Leo Moser, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Arthur Nash, and Harry Northwood. Serving as a record of an exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass, the volume also features an introductory essay that contextualizes glass design and manufacturing in the age of the first World’s Fairs. Three more essays explore the popularization of colored glass, the new techniques and colors produced from scientific experiments, and how consumers incorporated these colorful wares into their home.
Now on view at the Corning Museum of Glass through January 11, 2026.
Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1986–2001
This comprehensive three-volume set documents the final works published by master printer Kenneth E. Tyler, a seminal figure in the American print renaissance of the twentieth century. During his esteemed career, Tyler collaborated with titans of modern and postmodern American art—Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, James Rosenquist, and Frank Stella, to name a few—working by the mantra “great prints are made only by great artists.” He was known for pushing artists to dream big and for creating new technology and exhaustive facilities to enable their creative potential. This monumental publication features more than 1,000 illustrations as well as essays from distinguished American scholars and from print curators at the National Gallery of Australia, home of the world’s most comprehensive collection of prints produced by the printmaker and publisher
Now on view at the National Gallery of Australia through August 2, 2026.
Past Exhibition Publications
