Robert Arneson

American, (1930–1992)

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Robert Arneson received both his Bachelor of Arts in 1954 and Master of Fine Arts in 1958 from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. He was hired by the University of California, Davis to establish the ceramic sculpture program in 1962. Under Arneson’s leadership, Davis became an important epicenter for ceramic sculpture in the latter half of the twentieth century.