Bob Leverich is an architect, sculptor, and craftsman in Olympia, Washington, where he’s also an emeritus faculty member of The Evergreen State College.

Bob grew up on a farm in rural Wisconsin and began drawing, designing, and making things early. Bob earned a Masters degree in architecture from the University of Minnesota, and worked as an architect in Wisconsin for nine years before attaining a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School for American Crafts at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He maintained a sculpture studio and continued to work as an architect in Rochester, New York for eleven years prior to coming to Evergreen. Bob has a 40+ year association with Penland School of Crafts and the Penland community in North Carolina, first as a student, and later as a teacher and architect. Bob counts potter Warren Mackenzie, woodworker Doug Sigler, sculptor Verena Schwippert, and architect John Bero among his most important mentors, for their deep knowledge, skill and commitment to their crafts as means of expression, stewardship, and service.