Katsitsionni Fox
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Katsitsionni Fox
Our #matriarchmonday spotlight is Katsitsionni (“She Makes Flowers”) Fox, is a member of the Mohawk community of Akwesasne. She is the owner of Two Row Productions, a native owned media productions company and a practicing artist, curator, filmmaker and educator. Katsitsionni's work draws inspiration from Haudenosaunee culture and history while investigating contemporary social and environmental issues.
Katsitsionni has been making films since 2003 and her latest documentary, Without a Whisper – Konnon:kwe, is an untold story of how Native American women helped to inspire the struggle of American women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Her other film “Ohero:kon - Under the Husk,” follows the journey of two Mohawk girls as they take part in their traditional passage rites to becoming Mohawk Women. Katsitsionni has also produced a series of twelve short segments for REMATRIATION, a Native American women's online, multi-media magazine, that is focused on healing and empowerment of Native women through the sharing of their stories and successes.
Katsitsionni received an Associate in Fine Arts degree in painting and sculpture from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM (1989)and 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). She has received funding from Vision Maker Media, the Jane Glassco Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2016 as well as the Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking Award at LA Skins Fest in 2016.
