FINE ART - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Master Carver and Owner of RG Les Cadres Gault Working on a Hand - Crafted Frame for Fletcher / Copenhaver
Frédéric Richard, master carver and owner of RG Les Cadres Gault working on a hand-crafted frame for Fletcher/Copenhaver Fine Art.
Job Titles:
- Director and Curator of the Evergreen Museum & Library, Choosing Works for the Exhibition
Joel L. Fletcher has been an art dealer for more than 40 years. A native of Louisiana and a graduate of Tulane, he lived abroad for 16 years in Italy, France, and England, studying and collecting art while teaching and working in the field of international educational exchange for the Council on International Educational Exchange and the City University of New York. He is on the board and formerly served as Director of Communication of The Antiques Council.
In 1993, Copenhaver and Fletcher formed Fletcher/Copenhaver Fine Art, specializing in American and European modern figural art of 20th and 21st centuries. They deal privately and also exhibit at a number of major antique and design shows throughout the United States, traveling to Europe at least once a year in search of interesting inventory.
Fletcher curated and wrote the catalogue for the 1976 Bicentennial exhibition: America Through European Eyes: The Graphic Image, which was shown in several venues around the state of Louisiana. He and John A. Copenhaver co-curated the exhibition Moses Soyer: My Message is People in 1996 at the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach, Florida, and the Polk Museum in Lakeland, Florida. They also co-curated the exhibition Moses Soyer: From Social Realism to Romantic Realism at the Ridderhof-Martin Gallery of the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 2001.
John A. Copenhaver, President of Fletcher/Copenhaver Fine Art, is a native of Virginia and has degrees in art education from Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also an artist and studied at The Art Students League in New York City. He was an art educator in Virginia for 18 years and worked with a number of Virginia Universities supervising student teachers. He served on the board of the Virginia Art Education Association. He is currently on the board of The Antiques Council and for a number of years served as Director of Education for that organization. He is also on the board of the Virginia Chapter of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and serves as Education Chairman.