page_title: Chuck Sperry
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Chuck Sperry / Early life / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Chuck Sperry hosting a Schoolab Workshop with UC Berkeley &amp; École Polytechnique Students. Oakland, CA. June, 2017
context_page_description: Chuck Sperry is an American artist best known for his screen prints on paper and oak panel, his limited-edition rock posters for bands such as Widespread Panic and Pearl Jam, and his political protest art. Since 1985, Sperry's iconography has ranged from astronauts walking on the surface of the moon to portraits of performers as varied as Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, and Chrissie Hynde. Beginning in 2010, many of Sperry's prints have featured images of female muses from Greek mythology.
context_section_description: During this period, Sperry attended art classes at the Living Arts Center in Dayton and the Dayton Art Institute. In 1980, Sperry enrolled at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where he was a dual major in art and journalism. During his four years at MU, Sperry was an editorial cartoonist for the student newspaper, The Man Eater. Briefly, he also contributed illustrations to the Columbia Daily Tribune.
  At MU, Sperry was inspired by the dean of art school, Frank Stack, whose work prefigured the underground comix of the late 1960s. In the late 1950s, Stack and cartoonist Gilbert Shelton had edited The Texas Ranger humor magazine at the University of Texas at Austin. Later, while in the Army Reserve, Stack created satirical comics in his spare time, subsequently putting the best of these strips together as The Adventures of Jesus, considered by many to be America's first underground comic.
  Sperry was also influenced by Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Mike Peters, who worked for the Dayton Daily News and was a friend of Sperry's parents. Thanks to that familial connection, Sperry sometimes visited Peters at his office in downtown Dayton, to show the editorial cartoonist portfolios of art, which Peters would critique.
caption: Chuck Sperry hosting a Schoolab Workshop with UC Berkeley & École Polytechnique Students. Oakland, CA. June, 2017
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