Talk with Harrell Fletcher

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 : 12:00pm to 2:00pm

University Park Campus
Graduate Fine Arts Building
Lecture Forum

Free and open to the public.

Photo: "The American War," 2005 show by Fletcher at ArtPace in San Antonio


The socially engaged artist appears for the M.F.A. Lecture Series, the Handtmann Photography Lecture Series and the Master of Public Art Studies Program.

Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of interdisciplinary projects for over 15 years. His work has been shown at SFMOMA, the de Young Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area; the Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Sculpture Center, the Wrong Gallery and Smackmellon in New York; DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston; PICA in Portland; CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle; Signal in Sweden; Domain de Kerguehennec in France; and The Royal College of Art in London. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher has work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, SFMOMA, the Berkeley Art Museum, the De Young Museum, and the FRAC Brittany, France. In 2002, Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory Web site with Miranda July. A book version, LTLYM, was published in 2007 by Prestel. Fletcher is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His exhibition “The American War” originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, and traveled to Solvent Space in Richmond, White Columns in New York, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, PICA in Portland, and LAXART in Los Angeles. Fletcher is a professor of art and social practice at Portland State University in Portland.