Bob Selby

Bob Selby graduated from Catawba College in Salisbury, NC in 1971 with a BA in English. He made his way back to his native Massachusetts where he freelanced as an illustrator for such publications as Yankee Magazine, the Boston Globe and the Providence Journal-Bulletin. In 1976 he was hired as an artist by the Providence Journal, eventually becoming a staff illustrator. During his twenty year tenure at the newspaper, Bob's assignments were varied and challenging. He worked as a sketch artist in state, federal and in the U.S. Supreme court. He produced a weekly comic strip, researched and executed history paintings, some of which are now held in museums, including the military collection in the John Hay Library of Brown University. He worked on locations as disparate as the deck of a twelve meter yacht in Newport's America's Cup races to Rhode Island homeless shelters. The awards he garnered included recognition by the Society of Illustrators of New York, the Society of Newspaper Design, Print Magazine and the Associated Press.

In 1993 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant in Journalism to research the history of caricature in Spain and spent four months living and working in Madrid, Spain. It was during those years that Bob began teaching as an adjunct in the Illustration Department of the Rhode Island School of Design. He taught Caricature and Three Dimensional Illustration at RISD for fourteen years.

In 1995, when the Providence Journal was downsized and sold to a newspaper chain, Bob took a buyout and began teaching full-time in the Illustration Department of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. After four years, when daughter Shawn had graduated from college and wife Terri had completed her Masters degree (also in English), Bob resigned his position at UMass/Dartmouth so that he and Terri could realize their long-held dream and moved to the Green Mountains of Vermont.

Bob has combined free-lance illustration from his home and studio in Johnson with teaching. Since arriving in Vermont, he has executed commissions for the U.S. Coast Guard, Renaissance Greetings, Vermont Life Magazine, Brown Alumni Monthly Magazine and Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, among others. He joined the faculty at Champlain College in 2002 and currently teaches in the Multi-Media and Graphic Design and in the Game Design Departments.

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