Roger Shipley was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1941 to Reginald and Louise Shipley. The youngest of three children, Roger was interested in art at a very early age, working with wood making various objects and working with water-based mediums, making two-dimensional pieces. He was encouraged by his mother to take summer classes at the Cleveland Institute of Art where he took design and life drawing classes. In high school Roger took various art courses and was quite sure he wanted to go on in art.

His college experience at Otterbein College, 1960 to 1964, introduced him to serious study in two and three dimensional art and art history. He also took the opportunity to study at the Columbus Art Institute and Fontainebleau School of Music and Fine Arts in Fontainebleau, France where he took additional drawing and painting courses. After four years at Otterbein with a major in Art and a minor in French, Roger went to the Cleveland Art Institute and took painting and sculpture courses. In 1965, Mr. Shipley entered Cranbrook Academy of Art where he studied painting, printmaking, and sculpture. He received his MFA in 1967 with a major in painting and a minor in printmaking.

Roger’s teaching experience started in 1967 when he was offered a job teaching painting and printmaking at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Throughout these past 40 years he has taught art and worked as a fine artist making and showing his art in many galleries and exhibitions throughout the United States.

• Who's Who in American Art, 1978 to the present
• Who's Who in the East, 1990
• Who's Who in American Education, 1991 to the present

EDUCATOR, Professor of Art, Logan A. Richmond Chair, Department of Art, Lycoming College

ARTIST, Sculptor, Painter, Printmaker