Katsitsionni Fox

 

 

 

Artist in Residence 2025

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.

 

The Artist in Residence program is made possible through the generous support of the Dr. D. Susan Badenhausen Grant, administered by the Northern New York Community Foundation. We sincerely thank you for your generosity.