[2] He served four years in the U.S. Marines, before undergraduate Studies at Toledo University, the Toledo Museum of Art School and Bowling Green State University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
[2] He earned his Masters of Fine Arts degree from New York State College of Ceramics on the campus of Alfred University in 1964.
These three facets of his career are chronicled in the exhibition catalogue Robert Archambeau: Artist, Teacher, Collector, with essays by Helen Delacretaz and Edward Lebow.
His son, also named Robert Archambeau, is a poet and literary critic, whose works include the books Word Play Place, Home and Variations, and Laureates and Heretics.
While living in Japan he worked closely with the artist Akio Takamori and in the studio of Jun Kaneko.