(Washington, DC b. South Africa) For over five decades experimental printmaker Rosemary Feit Covey has created work illuminating the fragility and disintegration of human, plant and animal life. At the same time she has always seen the dichotomy between beauty and vulnerability and between vitality and decomposition. Throughout a prolific career she has maintained this long standing engagement with psychologically challenging- often troubling subject matter. Her work explores themes from multiple perspectives from the most personal in her earlier engravings, to her sustained work over the last thirty years collaborating with scientists and doctors. Her highly collaborative installation projects reflect on a life time engagement with responsibility and collective guilt. Recently her immersive installation, Red-Handed – Sudan: Don’t Turn Away, was displayed at the Chautauqua Institute. Created to raise awareness of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan, the 40×35-foot mixed-media floor artwork invites visitors to walk directly on the imagery—stylized bodies with hands dipped in red paint—forcing an emotional and physical engagement with the subject matter. Rosemary Feit Covey was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work is housed in more than forty museum and library collections worldwide, including the Yale University Art Gallery permanent collection, the New York Public Library Print Collection, the National Museum of American History, Harvard University, and the Papyrus Institute in Cairo, Egypt.In 2012, over five hundred of her prints were acquired for the permanent collection of Georgetown University Library, Special Collections. In 2025, eighteen works covering a range of her work, were acquired by Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (Bellagio Italy), an Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation National Fine Art Award, and a fellowship to Georgetown University Medical Center as the 2007–2008 Artist-in-Residence. Her solo museum exhibitions include the Butler Museum of American Art, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, and the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago. In 2014, a retrospective of her prints, paintings, and installation work was featured at Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum. Articles on her work have been featured in publications including Art in America, The Washington Post and American Artist Magazine. She has been represented by Morton Fine Art since 2010.