Associate Professor, Sculpture
Welly Fletcher builds their sculptures using visceral materials to communicate in body-based terms like weight, texture, temperature, scent, and sound reflection. Recent artworks embrace themes of human-animal kinship, and the body’s central role within that inquiry. Fletcher sees the expanded field of sculpture as offering an increasingly-rare opportunity for an embodied, intersectional, poetic experience of otherness. Fletcher received a BA from Dartmouth College and an MFA from California College of the Arts. They have exhibited widely and been awarded artist residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, Stello in Portland, OR, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO. Their work has been featured in numerous publications including the Sinister Wisdom and Southwest Contemporary. SLANT, their 2023 exhibition at Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque NM, was a critics pick in Artforum.