Robert Arneson

American, (1930–1992)

Robert Arneson received both his BA in 1954 and MFA in 1958 from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. He was trained by some of the most skilled potters in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Edith Heath, Antonio Prieto, Robert Arneson, and Viola Frey. He was hired by the University of California, Davis, to establish their ceramic sculpture program in 1962. Under Arneson’s leadership, Davis became an important center for ceramic sculpture in the latter half of the twentieth century