Haudenosaunee ceramic artist, writer and filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox will visit the Alfred University campus from Sept. 9-11 as part of an intersectional, collaborative project between the School of Art and Design, New York College of Ceramics, and the Rochester Museum and Science Center.
Haudenosaunee ceramic artist, writer and filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox will visit the Alfred University campus from Sept. 9-11 as part of an intersectional, collaborative project between the School of Art and Design, New York College of Ceramics, and the Rochester Museum and Science Center. The project has been introduced by Victoria Wigal, a third-year SOAD student who worked at the RMSC as a summer intern and has been studying with SOAD Clinical Assistant Professor of Ceramic Art Jason Green.
Fox’s visit will focus on her replication of an original Onondaga Nation Grandmother Pot, which will be on display coinciding with Fox’s visit. According to Green, Fox will scan the original artifact and create a 3D clay-print replica. Additionally, she plans to create a film recording of her visit for the RMSC exhibition, “so this might be a situation where documentation is documented.” Green credits Wigal “for seeing and seeding this intersection” between several institutions, technology, and digital fabrication.
Following Fox’s visit, Green anticipates producing a halved version of the Grandmother Pot that will become part of an interactive display, where visitors will be able to digitally create their own decorative patterns and project them onto the pot. That phase of the overall project will involve additional intersectional input from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Fox’s visit also is part of a larger exhibition project at the RMSC, Hodinöšyö:nih Continuity | Innovation | Resilience.
The project also has received consent from the Haudenosaunee Nations in support of displaying the original Grandmother Pot and replicating the pot with 3D scanning and printing technology as a way of recreating the original safely through direct contact with the replica.
In a recent interview, Fox describes Grandmother Pots as craftwork created for daily use by Indigenous people. “Making (her own) clay pots connects her to her ancestors, the women who made pots for daily use in Akwesasne, a Mohawk Territory in upstate New York,” according to a transcript of the conversation.
As Fox puts it, “When I’m making pots, I’m thinking all the way back to creation.”
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