Stephen De Staebler

American, (1933–2011)

Born in Webster Groves, Missouri, in 1933, De Staebler studied at Princeton University and Black Mountain College in North Carolina. A pivotal moment in his career was his encounter with Peter Voulkos at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1959. De Staebler earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from UC Berkeley in 1961 and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute (1961–1967) and San Francisco State University (1967–1992). De Staebler died in 2011.