A black and white photo of Vanessa. She has short dark hair and painted fingernails. Vanessa’s eyes are fixed on something in the distance, while porcupine quills jet out of her mouth and her fingers delicately pick one to remove.

A black and white photo of Vanessa. She has short dark hair and painted fingernails. Vanessa’s eyes are fixed on something in the distance, while porcupine quills jet out of her mouth and her fingers delicately pick one to remove.

Vanessa Dion Fletcher

Digital Storytelling Facilitator

vanessaafletcher@gmail.com

Vanessa Dion Fletcher is an independent artist. She employs porcupine quills, Wampum belts, and menstrual blood to reveal the complexities of what defines a body physically and culturally. She links these ideas to personal experiences with language, fluency, and understanding. All of these themes are brought together in the context of her Potawatomi and Lenape ancestry, and her learning disability caused by a lack of short-term memory. Her work is held in the Indigenous Art Center Collection in Gatineau, Quebec. In 2016, Dion Fletcher graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago with an M.F.A in performance. She is the recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts International Residency in Santa Fe, New Mexico U.S.A.