Caitlin grew up in La Crosse, Wisconsin in the Mississippi River Valley. She was born in Germany, when her parents served in the military as medical doctors. She remembers around kindergarten age, before moving to Wisconsin, seeing a lot of art in museums and churches, and having wonder and some kind of small, budding interest in it.  

Mrs. Fletcher attended Catholic parochial schools in La Crosse, and then attended and graduated from Thomas Aquinas College in California. She learned about the school by chance and attended its summer program while in high school. There, she found out she really loved the new experience of learning through dialogue, and the Socratic Method. She loved Socrates in general, and thinking about reality, what it means to live a good life, and to be free. In her liberal arts education, her interests generally centered around questions about the human person, and this is what she loves about art as well. 

Growing up, Mrs. Fletcher thought that people just didn’t paint the way she had seen in museums anymore, but has been happy to find many artists who also care about and are moved by painting people with a dedication to observation. She moved to Philadelphia to study realist painting at a small school called Studio Incamminati. She fell in love with the city, and its vibrant artistic community—both present and past. She has shown art at the Rittenhouse Fine Art Show two years in a row. She has also been accepted for an artist’s residency at the Sheen Center and is a recipient of a scholarship to study at the Grand Central Academy in New York for the summer of 2021.