Ron Nagle

American, b. 1939

Ron Nagle received his BFA from San Francisco State University in 1961. He was hired by Peter Voulkos as a studio assistant at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he taught at institutions in the Bay Area, including the San Francisco Art Institute, the California College of Arts and Crafts, and California State University, Hayward. In 1978, Nagle took over the prominent ceramics program at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he remained until his retirement in 2010.