Jason Seley

Jason Seley was born in Newark, N.J., and graduated from Cornell in 1940. He came to Manhattan to study with Ossip Zadkine at the Art Student League from 1943 to 1945. In 1949 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for a year's study in Paris.

Seley was a professor of sculpture at Cornell since 1968 and chairman of the department of art from 1968 to 1973. He became dean of the college in 1980. He taught sculpture from 1965 to 1967 at New York University, and from 1953 to 1965 at Hofstra University.