Clayton Bailey was born in Antigo, Wisconsin in 1939 and
lives in Port Costa, California. Formerly a professor of art at
Wisconsin State University, he is now professor emeritus of ceramics
at California State University, Hayward. Bailey has received a
National Endowment for the Arts Craftsmen’s Fellowship and an
Honorary Fellowship Award from the National Council on Education for
the Ceramic Arts.
In
1976 Bailey founded "The Wonders of the World Museum" in downtown
Port Costa, where he lured tourists into the museum in a robot
costume of his own design. Bailey has built over 100 life-sized
robot sculptures out of found objects. He says, "I like to build
beauties and monsters. I want to build robots that entertain and
educate."
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