Roda Selleck

Roda E. Selleck (September 6, 1848 – November 15, 1924) was an American painter and art instructor.

A native of Utica, Michigan, Selleck studied at Syracuse University and with Denman W. Ross at Harvard University; she also spent time at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Purdue University, She began her career as an educator teaching at the State Normal School in Saginaw, Michigan, later becoming a supervisor; in 1881, she began teaching English and Latin in Indianapolis Public Schools. She was soon assigned to teach art at Indianapolis High School, later renamed Shortridge High School, where she remained until her death in 1924. By the 1890s, she had won recognition for introducing "craftwork" – leather, pottery, jewelry, and metalwork – into the curriculum. She taught pottery at the John Herron Art Institute from 1915 until 1916, and developed a line of pottery, Selridge Pottery, marked "SP" and produced by pupils at the high school. She is buried in the Utica Cemetery in her hometown.