PERFORMING OUR FUTURE:
F O R U M
KATE FOWLER
Kate Fowler is a documentary filmmaker from Richmond, Virginia who serves as the Director of Appalshop’s Appalachian Media Institute. Before joining the Appalshop team, Kate worked for the Magnum Foundation as Program Coordinator of their Photography, Expanded initiative. During her time at Magnum Foundation, Kate co-organized and directed educational programming and events on documentary storytelling at the intersection of social justice and technology, including the third annual Photography, Expanded Symposium at Parsons The New School. Previously, Kate co-directed a series of photography workshops throughout Europe and NYC with the Italian school of photography, Spazio Labo’, and has lectured and co-taught workshops at Columbia’s School of Journalism, Virginia Military Institute and at LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph. She holds a BFA in Photography & Filmmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Kate has written essays on documentary practice for the Oxford American, American Suburb X and Burn Magazine, and has screened and exhibited her personal work in international publications and film festivals. She is currently on the board of Roger May’s crowd-sourced project Looking at Appalachia and serves as the co-director of Tactics of Collaboration: A Participatory Playbook with artist Mark Strandquist, a project that seeks to visualize the unseen moments of community organizing and social practice by mapping large-scale, community-based works.
Kate has written essays on documentary practice for the Oxford American, American Suburb X and Burn Magazine, and has screened and exhibited her personal work in international publications and film festivals. She is currently on the board of Roger May’s crowd-sourced project Looking at Appalachia and serves as the co-director of Tactics of Collaboration: A Participatory Playbook with artist Mark Strandquist, a project that seeks to visualize the unseen moments of community organizing and social practice by mapping large-scale, community-based works.