Roger S. Bailey

1925 Born Pennsylvania

1997 Died San Luis Obispo, California

EDUCATION

1949 BA, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania

1951 MA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1958-1961 Ceramics Instructor, Palomar Junior College, Palomar, California

1961-1979 Professor, Ceramics, California Polytechnic State, University, San Luis Obispo, California

Roger Bailey primarily made wheel thrown stoneware, and porcelain with crystalline glaze. Later pieces were raku or pit-fired. (raku: a firing technique originating in Japan. In the USA, a pot is removed from a kiln at glaze maturation, and usually immersed in a post-firing reduction of combustibles such as straw, leaves, etc. resulting in a dark, smoky surface).

 Roger Bailey taught ceramics at the college level for twenty years. In 1966, he began a business, Architectural Arts,  in San Luis Obispo with a former student, Roger Marshall.