"I’ve always liked sharing the experience of making art with other people, especially people who don’t consider themselves artists, or have access to skills, and contexts like museums and galleries. Moving to Portland three years ago, I debated relocating to New York or Los Angeles, but decided to settle outside of art world centers. In Portland I feel I can have a substantial effect not just on the local art scene, but eventually on the whole social and cultural environment. I’m trying to encourage more artists to choose lessexpected locations to live in and to create work that engages those places as well as the larger art world." Working from a wide variety of literary and social sources, Harrell Fletcher sees art, not only as discreet objects or images, but as a point of view one brings to all aspects of life. Collaboration is a core element of his practice; he's worked with kids, museum visitors, farmers, seniors and old friends. In exhibitions, video, events and web-based projects, he creates interactions, transforming both people and spaces such as a bus stop, a retirement home, and a garage where mechanics and customers read Ulysses aloud. His web site Learningtoloveyoumore.com offers "assignments"—from "Draw a scene from a movie that made you cry" to "Defeat George Bush"—and posts participants' responses. Fletcher will be giving away $20,000 of his Alpert Award in the form of "sub-grants" to other artists and projects around the country.

Born 1967, Santa Maria, California Lives in Portland, Oregon 1996 Certification in Ecological Horticulture, UCSC, Santa Cruz, California 1994 M.F.A., Interdisciplinary, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California 1990 B.F.A., Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Franscisco, California 2004-present Assistant Professor, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

	2005	The Wrong Gallery, New York, Sasquatch
	2004	Christine Burgin, New York, A Moment Of Doubt
	2004	Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, Maintaining The Jazz
	2004	New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Happiness Follows Us Like A Shadow
	2003	DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, The Sound We Make Together
	2003	Signal Art Center, Malmo, Sweden, Reread Summerhill
	2001	Portland Institute For Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, Everyday Sunshine
	1999	Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, The Boy Mechanic

	2005	Royal College of Art Gallery, London, Do Not Interrupt Your Activities
	2005	Whitney Museum, New York, Whitney Biennial
	2005	Domaine de Kerguéhennec Centre d’Art, Bignan, France, Near And Far
	2003	The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, Baja to Vancouver
	2003	The Drawing Center, New York, Street Selections
	2001	Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, Fast Forward
	2000	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Of The Moment: Contemporary Art From The Collection
	2000	Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, Above and Beyond
	2000	de Young Museum, San Francisco, Museum Pieces

	2005	ArtPace Residency
	2004	Artslink Grant
	2002	Creative Capital Grant
	2000	Creative Work Fund Grant
	1998	Headlands Center For The Arts Residency

	www.harrellfletcher.com www.learningtoloveyoumore.com