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Amy Fichter [xenia elizabeth]

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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	associate professor, life drawing
Location	WI, United States
Introduction	I teach Life Drawing I, Life Drawing II, and Drawing III at the University of Wisconsin–Stout in Menomonie. Before coming to UW–Stout, I taught at Texas A & M University–Corpus Christi and the University of Central Arkansas. I received my Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. My current creative research is in photography.
Interests	photography, holga, lo-fi, analog, film, figure drawing, artistic anatomy, line, cross-contour drawing, bones, muscles, structural drawing, conte crayon, contemporary art, old master drawings, the body, comparative anatomy, poetry, poets, essays, non-fiction, writers, writing, teaching, teaching artistic anatomy, teaching drawing, teaching figure drawing, students, running, marathon, half-marathon, 15K, 10K, reading about running, running in the winter, running as anti-depressant and anti-anxiety, healthy food, good coffee, chocolate, coconuts, coconut oil, raising a boy, motherhood, dinosaurs, prehistoric life, paleontology, fossils, evolution, atheism, the creative spirit, introversion, life of the mind, being outside, sunlight, depression, depression in artists, surviving depression, dirt, planting things and watching them grow, cats, watching cats, cuddling with cats, listening to cats purr, art films, foreign films, documentaries, libraries, museums, art theory, SAD, gardening, stuckism, red cedar trail, living locally, being present, mapping main street, cycling, iPhone
Favorite Movies	The Decalogue, Red/White/Blue, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Ruby in Paradise, Wings of Desire, My Architect, Prospero's Books, Frida, 21 Grams, Smoke Signals, Talk to Her, The Sweet Hereafter, Heaven, Run Lola Run, Winter Sleepers, The Syrian Bride, Junebug, The Piano, An Angel at my Table, Maria Full of Grace, Born into Brothels, The Corporation, Kinsey, The House of Sand and Fog, Rivers & Tides, Lost in Translation, To Be and To Have, The Magdalene Sisters, Mystic River, Burnt by the Sun, Amelie, Sex and Lucia, Traffic, Requiem for a Dream, The Straight Story, American Movie, The Dreamlife of Angels, Boys Don't Cry, The Thin Red Line, Henry Fool, Life is Beautiful, Chasing Amy, The Apostle, Secrets & Lies, Female Perversions, Crumb, Once Were Warriors, Dead Man Walking, Trainspotting, The Mission, The Double Life of Veronique, The Piano Teacher, Angels & Insects, Jane Eyre, The Color Purple, Babette's Feast, Fanny & Alexander, The Hour of the Wolf, Lost Highway, Farewell my Concubine, Like Water for Chocolate, Night on Earth, Down by Law, Magnolia, Water, Vera Drake, The White Diamond, Grizzly Man, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, God's Country, 35 Shots of Rum, The Barbarian Invasions, Babel, The Sheltering Sky, The Accidental Tourist, Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
Favorite Music	Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Zero 7, Everything but the Girl, Gillian Welch, Cowboy Junkies, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Lucinda Williams, Greg Brown, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Sean Hayes, This Mortal Coil, Kristin Hersh, Mark Lanegan, Isobel Campbell, Smog, Vanessa Daou, Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell, CocoRosie, Feist, Flunk, Tanita Tikaram, Jim White, The Kills, Neko Case, Shuggie Otis, Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man, Ray LaMontagne, Sade, Ani Difranco, Michelle Schocked, The Golden Palominos, Beth Orton, Shawn Colvin, Tori Amos, Rickie Lee Jones, Edith Frost, The Be Good Tanyas, Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell, Carrie Rodriguez, Damien Rice, Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval, Jeff Buckley, Morphine, The National, Roma di Luna, MIA
Favorite Books	The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, The Distance From the Heart of Things, The Summer After June, Bastard Out of Carolina, Stigmata, The Awakening, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Life Work, Drawing Acts, Geek Love, Attic, A Natural History of the Senses, Indelible Acts, So I Am Glad, On Bullfighting, To Kill a Mockingbird, For the Time Being, Posession, Babel Tower, The Golden Notebook, The Grandmothers, The White Album, Beloved, Self Help, A Suitable Boy, An American Childhood, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Second Sex, Running & Being, The Lore of Running, Elements of Effort, Charlotte, The Object Stares Back, A Thousand Acres, The Temple of my Familiar, The Color Purple, Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Written on the Body, Gut Symmetries, Art & Lies, Like Life, Birds of America, A Room of One's Own, The Healing Sun, Weight, Perfume, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Oneness and Separateness, The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx & Crake, The Eros of Parenthood, Everything you Need, Sister Outsider, The Deep Green Sea, Erotic Faculties, Monster/Beauty, Seeking the Living, Stiff: the Everyday Lives of Human Cadavers, All About Love, The Quick and the Dead, Cezanne's Composition, Bird by Bird, Wet, Teaching to Transgress, Truck, The God Delusion, The Scent of Desire, A Body of Work, The Athlete's Way, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science & Sex, Personal Record, Drawing Now (Tracey), Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows