Artist in Residence 2025
Katsitsionni Fox
Katsitsionni Fox is Bear Clan from the Mohawk Nation Territory of Akwesasne. She is a practicing educator and an award winning artist and filmmaker whose work draws inspiration from Haudenosaunee culture and current realities. Fox received an Associate in Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM (1989). She received a BA in Studio Arts from SUNY Potsdam (1995) and an MFA in
Visual Art from Vermont College at Norwich University in Montpelier, Vermont (2000). Katsitsionni’s work has been exhibited across turtle island for the past 20 years. Her pottery is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Museum of Art and Science, Adirondack Experience, The Wild Center and the Seneca Museum.
Katsitsionni is part of a movement to revitalize traditional Haudenosaunee pottery, a practice that had been lost for generations. She has been mentored by Richard Zane Smith (Wyandot) and Roger Perkins (Mohawk) on traditional pottery techniques. She has studied the pottery collections first hand at the Rochester museum of Science and the Albany State Museum. She has taught traditional Haudenosaunee pottery and pipe making in Akwesasne, Six Nations, Tyendinaga, Kahnawake and Onondaga.
Her contemporary ceramic work comes into form with great intention and continued connection to all living things including the clay that comes from our Mother Earth. Her recent pottery work fuses traditional Haudenosaunee pottery techniques with contemporary themes and mixed media.
All week long, beginning Tuesday, June 3rd, from 1-4, guests to the Museum have an opportunity to see the artist making a traditional cooking pot during open hours at the Museum. Admission to the Museum is required. Our museum members are always free! Follow this link to become a member today!
Special events with our artist in residence:
Smudge Pot workshop:
Saturday, May 24, 10 am and Friday, June 6th, 10 am (for firing)
This is a two-session class. Participants must come to both classes.
Location: Kids Place studio; 12 spots available $40/ person, $35 for members (must preregister)
Artist exhibit opening, talk, and film screenings
Thursday, June 5th, 7pm
Free and open to the public
Location: Tiffany Room, The Frederic Remington Art Museum
Kanenon:we - Original Seeds
This film features Haudenosaunee seed keepers: Rebecca Webster, Angela Ferguson and Rowen White as they step back into their sacred responsibility as seed keepers offering a powerful view of what is possible in Indigenous communities working towards food sovereignty.
(Runtime: 27 minutes)
Tentsitewahkwe - Again We Pick it Up
Embodying the Mohawk value of tentsitewahkwe (we pick it u p again), Jessica Shenandoah goes on a knowledge-gathering journey across all four seasons to reinvigorate the healing, land-based practices of her foremothers. Jessica reclaims knowledge that has been asleep for generations due to the destructive effects of boarding schools, forced religion and land theft.
(Runtime: 17 minutes)
