Alicia

Bethany Christian School, Attended 1985 - 1986
L B Nelson Elementary, Attended 1988 - 1989
Highlands School, Attended 1989 - 1998, Class of 1998

ENSBA Paris

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Attended 2007 - Present, Class of 2009, Master's Degree, Visual and Critical Studies / BFA 2003 Fine Art/Photography
Northwestern University, Attended 2004 - 2006, Other, Certificate in Museum Studies
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Attended 1998 - 1999, Other

grad student, artist, reluctant careerist

Visual and Critical Studies, Anti-Bias Reading Revolution, Chicago Artists' Coalition, United States Dressage Federation

wheat-free cooking, loose leaf tea, curry, chocolate, wine, feminism, photography, modernity, public transportation, sustainable living, horses, chiropractics, working out

J.M. Coetzee, bell hooks, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Sophie's Choice, 100 Years of Solitude, Candide, Gut Symmetries, The Catcher in the Rye, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Harry Potter (en francais), Photography: A Critical Introduction, Out of Order Out of Sight (Adrian Piper)

Half Nelson, Russian Ark, La Jetee, I Heart Huckabies, Amelie, Goodbye Lenin!, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Motorcycle Diaries, the Celebration/Festen, Back to the Future (all 3), Fried Green Tomatoes, Contact, Romeo and Juliet (Danes/DiCaprio), the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, the Godfather, Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Manderlay, the Five Obstructions)

Ani DiFranco, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Jolie Holland, Andrew Bird, Bjork, Sufjan Stephens, Rufus Wainwright, OutKast, Beck, Erykah Badu, The Postal Service, Arto Lindsay, Max Richter

Lost, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Arrested Development, Sex and the City

Libra

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Right now I am wondering how the representation of the female body in 19th & 20th century modernist art influences or corresponds to reproductive health care legislation and policies affecting women. I am thinking of atavism, Freud, Manet, Picasso, primitivism, the madonna/whore dichotomy, allegorical affinities, and the possibility of spontaneous feminist Fluxus performances.

Feminists and dandies. People who will model in my photographs. Kindred spirits armed with a sense of humor and witty banter.