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Stephen DeStaebler

Stephen DeStaebler (1933 - 2011) was active/lived in California, Missouri.  Stephen DeStaebler is known for Monumental ceramic figure sculpture.

Interview with Stephen De Staebler, 1995
Copyright by Jessie Benton Evans

Jessie Benton Evans: Did you always want to be a sculptor?

Stephen De Staebler: I wanted to be an artist, but for reasons I'm not quite clear about, I went to a university with no art department. I had to major in my junior year, so I thought, "The closest thing to art is art history." Wrong. That's when I gained a first-hand understanding of the conflict between the hemispheres of the brain. Art history is essentially a linear discipline, and art-making is a right hemispheric function. It's like oil and water. My way out of the crisis in the first semester was to major in religion. It was wonderful and terrible. I learned about any number of religious experiences -- other people's -- and became extremely frustrated. In art it would be like being told, "Oh, how wonderful it is to pick up the brush and paint," but have no brush in your own hand. I graduated in '54, glad to get out, got drafted an   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17971 characters.]  Artist bio

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