Robert Stackhouse (b. 1942) was born in Bronxville, New York. He earned his BA from the University of South Florida and his MA from the University of Maryland. Stackhouse is known mainly for his sculptures, but he is also a recognizable painter and printmaker. His interest in ship structures is prevalent throughout his artwork. He has won several fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1977 and 1991, as well as an Artist Lifetime Achievement Award from the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida in 2008. Stackhouse’s work is in numerous collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the National Gallery of Australia. Since 2002, he has been working collaboratively with his wife Carol Mickett under the name Mickett/Stackhouse.