Background
Robert W. Fichter was born in 1939 in Fort Meyers, Florida, United States.
Robert W. Fichter was born in 1939 in Fort Meyers, Florida, United States.
Fichter earned a BFA in 1963 from Indiana University in Bloomington. He earned an MFA in 1966 from the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he studied painting and printmaking.
An assistant curator of exhibitions for George Eastman House in Rochester (1966-68), he then moved west, working for UCLA as an assistant professor (1968-70), a lecturer (1971) and visiting associate professor (1971). Since 1972 he has been working as associate professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Nancy Smith Fichterand her husband serve as the Co-Directors of The Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts, at Clayton, GA, a not-for-profit arts group whose mission is to offer a place where gifted creative artists and scholars in various disciplines may find the conditions of quiet solitude and privacy in which to pursue their work.
Robert W. Fichter studied photography and printmaking under Henry Holmes Smith.
