Teaching Public Art in the Twenty-first Century

Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for more than a decade. The elements of his practice of fifteen years are the origin of a new graduate program called Art and Social Practice Art, launched in the fall of 2007 at Portland State University. The program at Portland State is one of three public-art education programs that have been recently initiated, marking a new area of study and discourse for public-art education.