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Exhibitions: Painted Voices
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Exhibitions: Creole Heritage Tour

CREOLES OF CANE RIVER TOUR

  • 10/06 Convention Center, Natchitoches, LA
  • 5/06 St. Augustine Church, Cane River, LA
  • 3/06 Cité, des Arts Lafayette, LA
  • 2/06 Multi-cultural Center of the South, Shreveport, LA
  • 1/04 Northwestern State University, Orville J. Hanchey Gallery, Natchitoches, LA
  • 8/04 George and Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art New Orleans, LA

 

PAINTED VOICES ON TOUR

  • 11/06 Berkeley Carole School, Brooklyn, NY
  • 10/05 Langston Hughes Festival, The City College of New York at the IRODAC Center
  • 10/04 Langston Hughes Festival, The City College of New York at the IRODAC Center
  • 4/04 The Blake School, Minniappolias, MN
  • 6/03 Akwaaba DC, Literary Bed and Breakfast
  • 2002 NCA Exhibition at Kwame Nkrumah University of Technology & Science, Kumasi, Ghana
  • 10/02 Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
  • 2/02 Gallery at the Interchurch Center, NY
  • 2/01 SoFA Gallery Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  • 5/00 Painted Voices: Cinque Gallery, NYC
  • 3/00 National Black Writers Conference at the Brooklyn Public Library
  • 2/00 Stapleton Library, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • 4/99 International Conference African Americans and the Bible, at Union Theological Seminary, NYC
  • 2/99 Stamford Center for the Arts
  • 2/98 Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA
OTHER SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  • 2/2002 Return to New Orleans Series, Delgado Community Colleges
  • 1996 Walking Through New Orleans Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA
  • 1994 Silvermind School of the Arts, New Canaan, CT
  • 1993 Darien Public Library, Darien, CT
  • 1992 Cinque Gallery, NYC
  • 1984 Dillard University New Orleans, LA
  • 1980 Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
  • 1978 Work of Art Gallery Brooklyn, NY
  • 1976 Pratt Institute Graduate Show Bklyn., NY


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

  • 2006 Back Street Gallery/Habitat for Humanity Katrina Relief Benefit
  • 2003 New Orleans Museum of Art, Raise to the Trade Creole Building Arts of New Orleans (with artist John Biggers, John Scott, Jacob Lawrence and Willie Birch)
  • 2001 Object Image Gallery
  • 1997 In the Spirit / Cinque Gallery, NY, NY
  • 1997 "Heritage," Faculty and Alumni Show Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
  • 1996 Still-Zitil Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  • 1995 NCA Masters Show, New Orleans Museum of Art
  • 1993 Willie Birch's Spirit House, (collaboration)
    • Sculpture Center, New York 
    • Contemporary Culture and Documentary Art Dallas, TX;
    • hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
  • 1990 Fellus Gallery, Washington, DC

    Our Common Wealth: Our Collection, Exhibition Tour Works from Traditionally Black Colleges  and Universities
    • 1991 Museum of African-American Art, Wilberforce, OH
    • 1990 Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    • 1990 Hampton University Museum,VA
    • 1990 Museum of Afro-American Art, Boston,
    • 1990 Museum of Science and Technology, Chicago, IL
  • 1987 Leah Chase Collection/New Orleans Museum of Art,
  • 1982 The 13 Collection, PBS
  • 1980 Chi-Wara Gallery Atlanta, GA
  • 1980 Brooklyn Museum Fence Show, Brooklyn, NY
  • 1980 Clinton Hill Artists at the Brooklyn Museum
  • 1979 Brooklyn Õ79, Brooklyn Museum
  • 1978 Clinton Hill Artist at Pratt Institute
  • 1975-76 American Painters in Paris, France


PROFILES & REVIEWS

  • 3/8/06 Independent Weekly Lafayette Louisiana, Cité des Arts will display work by artist Gilbert D. Fletcher on Documenting the Cane River Creoles Legacy.
  • 1/7/06 The Natchitoches Times, Creole Legacy, Paintings by Gilbert Fletcher
  • Capturing Writers on Canvas Jan. 03 Library Journal by Barbara Hoffert (p101)
  • Times Picuyne, "Artist born in New Orleans focuses art on city" by Robert Miller
  • Interview, 01, Quarterly of Black  Review
  • 2/26/01 The Harald-Times, "New exhibit celebrates Black History Month"
  • Spring/Summer 2000, Gallery & Studio
  • 3/18/00 New York Times, "Using strokes of a paint brush to capture strokes of a  pen"
  • 3/18/00 Artist Talk Brooklyn, Public Library on "Painted Voices."
  • 2/22/99 Worship & the Arts in the Black Experience -at Union Theological Seminary / a lecture/sermon on Inspiration, Creativity and Commitment
  • 2/4/98 NBC 6 Early Today
  • 3/22/98 Times Picayune; "Painted Voices has a lot to say" by Robert G. Miller
  • 2/9/96 Times Picuyne
  • 2/2/96 Fox 8 New Orleans
  • 26/96 NBC 6 Early Today
  • 1995, October 19 / Artist Talk on Art, Manhattan Cable, Canel 16
  • 1994 Artists Talk on Art, Sassafra s & Lagniappe: Artists from Way Down
  • Yonder in New Orleans, Fulcrum Gallery N Y, NY
  • 1988  Encyclopedia of Living Artists
  • 1991 WNBC News Center 6, Early Today
  • 1981 250 Years of  Afro-American Art / R.R. Bowker Publication by Lynn Igoe
  • 1978 The Phoenix News: Fletcher Does Doors, by Nancy Ungar


PUBLISHED WORKS

  • Traditional Homes Magazine, Nov. 2006 “Saranade to Storyville”
  • Porch Stories by Jewel Parker Rhodes/Simon & Shuster 2006, cover and interior drawings
  • Spring 2006 Prentice Hall Literature Grade 7, (Morning at the Jackson Avenue Ferry)
  • Fall/Winter 2005, cover African American Review (Man With A Trumpet)
  • Painted Voices Book Published CNG Editions 2003
  • Winter 2002, cover Quarterly of Black  Review
  • Spring/Summer 2000, cover African American Review (Painted Voices, Baraka)
  • 1999 The New Crisis magazine (Painted Voices)
  • 1998 Prentice Hall Literature / Children
  • 12/1996 African American Artist: The Long Struggle, by Crystal A. Britton
  • 1995 Prentice Hall Literature /"The Back Room"
  • 1993 "Magnolia Morning" on the jacket of Chesapeake Song by Brenda L. Richardson
  • 1991 Elle Magazine, November, pages 250 and 251
  • 1989 The Dooky Chase Cook Book


LECTURES

  • 2006 Berkley Caroll School, Brooklyn, lecture on New Orleans
  • 2/06 Multi-cultural Center of the South, Shreveport, LA (on Creole Heritage Series)
  • 1/06 Northwestern State University, Orville J. Hanchey Gallery, Natchitoches, LA (on Creole Heritage Series)
  • 8/05 George and Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art New Orleans, LA (on Creole Heritage Series)
  • 10/05 Langston Hughes Festival, The City College of New York at the IRODAC Center (Painted Voices Series)
  • 8/05 Cane River Creole Series, McKenna Museum New Orleans, LA (on Creole Heritage Series)
  • 10/04 Langston Hughes Festival, The City College of New York at the IRODAC Center (Painted Voices Series)
  • 4/04 The Blake School, Minniappolias, MN (Painted Voices Series)
  • 2003 Painted Voices Lecture at Asheé Cultural Center, LA
  • 2002 Painted Voices Lecture at Cinque Gallery, NY
  • 3/18/00 Painted Voices,  Brooklyn, Public Library, NY
  • 2001 Painted Voices Lecture at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
  • 2000 Painted Voices lecture at Indiana University in Penn.
  • 2/22/99 Worship & the Arts in the Black
    Experience -at Union Theological Seminary/lecture/sermon on Inspiration, Creativity and Commitment
  • 1995 Artist Talk on Art,
  • 1994 Artists Talk on Art, Sassafra s & Lagniappe: Artists from Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Fulcrum Gallery N Y, NY