by harrellfletcher | Oct 2, 2014 | Projects
On Foot: An Educational Art and Social Practice Journey from Portland to Mt. Hood Portland State University Portland, Oregon 2014 This project was constructed as a summer course with Eric Steen to examine various aspects of Oregon’s regional natural history,...
by harrellfletcher | Jun 22, 2014 | Some Thoughts
The question of whether social practice work belongs in museums has been brought up many times recently, partly as a result of several different museums attempting to include social practice in their programming. There are a variety of approaches to include social...
by harrellfletcher | Jun 4, 2014 | Some Thoughts
When I was a kid, sometimes at night when I was trying to fall asleep lying in bed I would imagine that my legs stretched out away from my body so that my feet were miles away from my head, it was an interesting sensation. I know that doesn’t have anything to do with...
by harrellfletcher | May 27, 2014 | Some Thoughts
I’ve often been asked about how to get the ball rolling towards making a living producing art. It’s a tough question. For every artist who somehow figures that question out there are probably a thousand or more who don’t. Imagine if people going to medical school only...
by harrellfletcher | May 21, 2014 | Some Thoughts
An approach to creating projects that I’ve employed many times (other artists have as well) and that I think is an interesting option generally, but is not often used by emerging artists (I’ve rarely run across MFA projects of this sort), is what I’ll call the...