CV | laura-fletcher

Education

MFA, Interdisciplinary Practice and Emerging Forms, University of Houston, TX

Summer Creative Writing Program, Naropa University, Boulder, CO

MA, 20th Century American Literature, Rice University, Houston, TX

BA, Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Teaching Experience

Adjunct Faculty, University of Tampa, FL, 2017-present

Digital Arts for Professional Communication
Media Aesthetics and Creativity

Adjunct Faculty, Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota, FL, 2016-present

Writing Studio for Artists
Literature + Media Studies

Media Arts Educator, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, 2015-2016

Digital Storytelling

Technical Tools: DSLR cameras, Final Cut Pro X, chroma key compositing

Computer Animation

Technical Tools: iStopMotion, Adobe After Effects CC

Filmmaking Instructor, Digital Media Academy, Rice University, Houston, TX, Summer 2015

Intro to Filmmaking

Technical Tools: MAC Lab, Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Audition, Canon XF350 cameras

Teaching Fellow, Fine Arts Department, University of Houston, TX, 2012-15

Fundamentals of Computer Tools for the Arts

Technical Tools: MAC Lab, Adobe Create Suite CC, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Audition, and Muse

Visual Literacy Instructor, FotoFest, Literacy Through Photography, Houston, TX, 2010-13

Photography, Visual Literacy, and Publication

Technical Tools: Adobe InDesign

Adjunct Faculty, University of Houston, Downtown, 2003-04

Composition I and II

Teaching Fellow, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1999-2000

Women, Sex, and Power: An Introduction to Composition and Feminist Theory

Teaching Assistant, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1997-1999

20th Century Women Writers: Gender & Modernism
Multicultural Literature: N. Scott Momaday, Ntozake Shange, Sandra Cisneros, and Mae Ngai

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

Houston Oracle in Two Parts by Stephen Korns, featured voice, public installation, ongoing

Florida Film Festival, Winter Park, FL, April 2016

Moving Image Exploration, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, February 2016

Antimatter [media art], Victoria, B.C., October 2015

Usurp Zone5 Film Festival, London, England, June 2015

Skyway Film Festival, Bradenton, FL, June 2015

37th Masters of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX, April 2015

Resolution, Third Space Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX, November 2014

Annual School of Art Student Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX, April 2014

Tier One Comics, Alabama Song Gallery, Houston, TX, May 2013

Room to be (Ms.)Understood, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX, Fall 2012

Production Credits

Associate Producer, America America, film by Jonathan Caouette for the Philharmonie de Paris, April 2016

Art Director and Assistant Editor, Born to Witness: Lorenzo Scott, film by Alison Watkins for the Lorenzo Scott Project, November 2013

Guest Lectures

MFA Artist Talks, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, April 2015

Digital Embodiment: New Media and Materiality in the Visual Arts, coordinator and chair, The Southeastern College Art Conference, 2014

Digital Artifacts and Visual Culture: Excavating the Body of New Media, paper delivered at The Southeastern College Art Conference, 2014

Publication Experience

Copy Editor, Origin Magazine, New York, NY, 2012

Edited all copy for the Summer/Fall issues of the magazine.
Transcribed and edited interviews with national artists such as Yoko Ono, Neil Young, and Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips.

Arts Writer, The Houston Press, Art Attack, Houston, TX, 2010-11

Covered the art beat for the magazine’s online Art Attack! section.
Identified trends, generated story ideas, researched, and drafted articles for the Houston art scene.

Assistant Editor, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, 2008-09

Edited content and tracked images for the exhibition catalogue Joaquin Torres-Garcia: Constructing Abstraction with Wood (2009) and the book Art & Activism: The Projects of John and Dominique de Menil (2010).
Edited and managed the production of the museum’s collections and ephemera publications, including gallery guides and invitations.

Southeast News Correspondent, Time.com, Atlanta, GA, 2005-06

Generated ideas, researched, and drafted articles that contributed to national coverage with news and local interest stories for the Southeast Bureau.
Wrote and researched regional assignments for the greater Houston area, ranging from sports coverage to the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Awards and Honors

Teaching Residency, Aurora Picture Show, Fall 2015-Summer 2016

Holt-Wich Scholarship, University of Houston, 2013-2014

Susan Vaughn Scholarship, University of Houston, 2012-2013

Artist Residency, Fotofest, Literacy Through Photography, Houston, TX, 2011-13

Presidential Fellowship, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1996-99

Press

http://www.blafferartmuseum.org/meet-the-mfas-laura-fletcher/

http://www.blafferartmuseum.org/37th-master-thesis-exhibition/

https://www.facebook.com/blaffer/posts/975283665815491

http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2013/may/0502GraphicNovel.php

http://glasstire.com/tag/laura-fletcher/