Barbara Rogers

Barbara Rogers grew up in a small town in Northern Ohio and graduated with a B.S.C degree in Art Education from Ohio University. In California, she studied painting at the San Fransisco Art Institute with Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Frank Lobdell. She studied life drawing with Nathan Oliver at California College of Arts and Crafts. She received the Eisner Prize and her MA in Painting from the University of California at Berkeley. At UC Berkeley, she studied with NY painters Michael Goldberg and Angelo Ippolito. Her major professor was the Chicago painter, Felix Revolo.

Rogers has been a faculty member or visiting artist at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, University of Chicago, San Jose State University, The San Francisco Art Institute, Cooper Union, New York City, NY, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea, and Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. In 2007, after numerous mentoring and teaching awards, Rogers retired from the University of Arizona, and most recently way a Professor Emeritus of Painting and Drawing in The School of Art at The University of Arizona in Tuscon, AZ.