The 2014 Birke Fine Arts Festival brochure

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Vanessa German is a self-taught, multidisciplinary art maker. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in Los Angeles, California. She is presently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s historic Homewood neighborhood. Ms. German’s sculptural and performance works blur the lines between public art, performance art, activism and citizenship. Her most recent body of work opened in October of 2013 at the Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York City. Her work has been shown at the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum, Miami Basel, and is presently touring the nation with the International Collage Center, and African American Art 1950 - Present with the David C. Driskell center. Her work is in public and private collections nationwide; the Progressive Collection, the Weisman collection, the ICC, The David C. Driskell Center. She’s performed at POPTech, TEDx Harvard, TEDx MIT and been a featured speaker and performer at colleges and universities nation wide. She’s the creator/performer of 4 evening length performance works and these Spoken Word Operas have been featured in theaters from Marthas Vineyard to Cape Town, South Africa.

Harrell Fletcher received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from California College of the Arts. He studied organic farming at UCSC and went on to work on a variety of small Community Supported Agriculture farms, which impacted his work as an artist.

Fletcher has produced a variety of socially engaged collaborative and interdisciplinary projects since the early 1990’s. His work has been shown at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Wattis Institute, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, Signal in Malmo, Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec in France, The Tate Modern in London, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

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 Hammer Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, The De Young Museum, and The FRAC Brittany, France. From 2002 to 2009 Fletcher co-produced Learning To Love You More, a participatory website with Miranda July. Fletcher is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. Fletcher is an Associate Professor of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.