Maurice J. Sevigny is originally from Massachusetts where he majored in art education, ceramics, printmaking and painting at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He earned his M. A. and PhD degrees from The Ohio State University. He taught studio art and arts education at Western Kentucky University then served as the Director of the School of Art at Bowling Green University (1977-86). He was Department Chair and Marguerite Fairchild Centennial Professor of Art at the University of Texas at Austin (1986-1991) . He has lived in Tucson since 1991 where he serves as Dean of the College of Fine Arts, at The University of Arizona. He has exhibited frequently and his photographs and paintings are in many private and corporate collections.