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ABOUT HUNT PROTHRO

Born in Louisiana, but a resident of many places in childhood, Hunt Prothro  has pursued multiple vocations beyond ceramics, including a multi-decade career as a rock climber. The development of his 19th century stone house into a working studio and gallery has also been a central project for many years, resulting in a site unique in the area. In all things, he employs an inveterate ability to attend to detail, texture, and form. 


As a student of Marguerite Wildenhain in the 1970s, Hunt developed deep technical skills in ceramics that are informed by a painterly instinct and hand.  He has worked as a teacher in several settings, including Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. and Deep Springs College. 


Hunt has exhibited widely but especially on the East Coast. His work is included in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and has been featured in Ceramics Monthly magazine.  He has been published in Studio Potter magazine and delivered multiple lectures to NCECA and to the College Arts Association. 


He  lives and works at his studio in Western Maryland, just 45 minutes outside DC, and is married to Eleni Valasis, a professional writer and painter. 

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EDUCATION

1972-78 Pond Farm Workshops, Guerneville, CA, Marguerite Wildenhain, director

1971 Hanover College, Indiana, BA, Theology and Literature


TEACHING

1973-2017 Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, adjunct instructor in art

2009 Hood College, Frederick, MD, adjunct instructor in art history

1984-2000 Maryland State Arts Council, Artist-in-Education Program, resident artist

1991 Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA, adjunct instructor in art

1973-1974 Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, adjunct instructor in art


EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS

2020 Monocacy River Pottery Group: A Conscious Collective, NCECA 2020 Concurrent Exhibition

2020 Cumberland Valley Art Exhibition, WCMFA, Hagerstown, MD, (also 2018, 2019)

2019 53rd Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, TX

2019 Twin Cups, Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, MO

2009 Montgomery College Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, group show

2007 College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD, one-person show, Surface Tension

2005 Harford Community College, MD, NCECA, 2005, Concurrent Exhibition

2002 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC, participant (also, 1994 and 1997)

2002 UC, San Bernardino, “Ripples: Marguerite Wildenhain and her Students”, group show

1984 Washington County Museum of Fine Art, Hagerstown, MD, one-person show

1976 Havre de Grace Art Show, Havre de Grace, MD, “Best in Show”


MUSEUM COLLECTIONS/ GRANTS/ AWARDS

2007 NCECA Special Session Speaker, “Notes from the Paleolithic Project,” CAA, NYC

2002 Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award

1999 Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award

1999 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC


LECTURES/ PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCES

2023 Cumberland Valley Show, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (also 2018, 2019, and 2020)

2023 NCECA, Concurrent Exhibition, "Texture as Subliminal Experience"

2017 “Who is Marguerite Wildenhain,” NCECA 2017, Portland, OR, lecture

2010 Critical: Santa Fe, ceramic art conference, Santa Fe, NM, organizing team member

2009 “An Incident in Class,” Studio Potter, Winter, 2009

2008 “Hunt Prothro: Surface Tension," Ceramics Monthly magazine, March, 2008

2008 “Accommodations of Desire,” NCECA 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, lecture

2007 “Memoir of Marguerite: A Student Recollection”, in Marguerite Wildenhain and the

Bauhaus, South Bear Press, ed. Dean and Gerry Schwartz

2006 “Notes from the Paleolithic Project: Transience and Singularity,” NCECA, 2006, lecture

1986 “Rob Barnard at Anton Gallery, WDC,” The New Arts Examiner

1980 “Marguerite Wildenhain, Sustained Presence,” American Craft, September, 1980

Nceca Conference Presentation, 2017

Who is Marguerite Wildenhain

Recent Commission by Eleni Valasis. Images and Voiceover by Artist, Marian McLaughlin, Text by Hunt Prothro

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