Ed Pogue was born in Blytheville, Arkansas in 1962 and attended Paragould High School from 1976 to 1980. He graduated from Arkansas State University with a BFA Degree in Studio Art in 1985. Ed moved to New Jersey in 1988 upon the completion of his MFA Degree with emphasis in sculpture at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale. Wanting to be more involved in the collegiate atmosphere he moved to Palm Desert, California in 1989 to become a faculty member at College of the Desert. Ed was Director of the California Sculpture Center at COD for two years when in 1992 the institution closed the sculpture program and facilities. In 1993 he worked for a short period of time at the Monterey Sculpture Center in Monterey, California, but still longing to teach, he accepted a position in 1994 at the prestigious Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California, now the Academy of Art University. Ed taught many sculpture courses and was the chief manager for operations of the large Sculpture Center facility in downtown. Ed decided to move with his wife Julia to Lindsborg, Kansas in 1999 in order to help facilitate her acquisition of a teaching credential. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Bethany College