Jaye Bumbaugh

Ceramic Bird 502 12" High Ceramic $250	Ceramic Bird 3528 15" High Ceramic with Airbrushed Acrylic $250
Ceramic Bird 22 22" High Ceramic with Airbrushed Acrylic $400	Fallen Moon 14" x 28" Mixed Media $500
Private Dream 31" x 14" Mixed Media $525 on display at Germain Mercedes-Benz of Easton	Japanese Moon 12" x 22" Mixed Media $450

Jaye Bumbaugh was born and raised in Lorain, Ohio on Lake Erie, west of Cleveland, Ohio. He is a graduate of Lorain Senior High School in 1955. Jaye graduated in 1959from Ohio Northern University where he met his wife, Susan Moritz, on the ONU campus and they married in August of 1959.

Jaye taught art at Midview Junior High School in Grafton, Ohio for five years, then taught at Bluffton High School. After graduating from Bowling Green State University in 1967 with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture, he began his 37 year career of teaching Art at Bluffton University.

During this time he served as chairman of the Art Department and was instrumental in bringing the Art Department curriculum into the contemporary world, introducing new courses in airbrush, paper-making, figure drawing with the life model, lithography, intaglio, silkscreen and relief printmaking, as well as welding and casting metals in sculpture. Under Jaye’s direction, Bluffton University sponsored the Scholastic High School Art Awards program for many years.

Jaye’s art work has been accepted into many state and regional juried art exhibitions where he has won numerous awards. In his work as an artist, Jaye has worked in many media including drawing in graphite, charcoal and pastel, painting in oils, acrylics and watercolor, and relief prints in linoleum, intaglio, silkscreen and lithography. In sculpture he works in ceramics and with bronze castings. More recently he has worked with constructions in paper, silkscreen and rag board.

In his life as an artist Jaye says he does not separate his life and art—they are one. Jaye has lived with his wife, Susan, in Lima, Ohio since 1967. Both are retired from Bluffton University where Susan taught in the Education Department. Son Michael and daughter's Kathe and Lisa (David Vottero) reside in Columbus, Ohio as well as grandchildren Chloe, Jacob and Elijah Vottero.