As part of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Fletcher is responsible for guiding the museum's collection of African American art. Fletcher comes to Washington from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she rose from the rank of curatorial assistant to associate curator. While in Houston, she oversaw the presentation of such major traveling exhibitions as Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power and Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, and has recently worked on Afro-Atlantic Histories, an exhibition organized by the Museu de Arte São Paulo which traveled to MFA, Houston and the National Gallery in 2021-22. Fletcher has published essays in books and journals and presented research at international conferences on Afro-diasporic art as it relates to politics of the body, gender, and labor as well as aesthetics and the avant-garde. Fletcher's previous museum experience includes the Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Since 2013, she has curated an ongoing video art series for Landmarks public art program at the University of Texas at Austin. Fletcher received a PhD in History of Art from Cornell University in 2019.
National Gallery of Art Announces New Staff
