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ABOUT HUNT PROTHRO

  

I've been a potter since 1972, when I began the first of 5 summers studying with Marguerite Wildenhain at her studio, Pond Farm, in Guerneville, CA. I built a studio in the basement of my parents house in Chevy Chase, MD, that same year and began to sell my work. 


The experience of working every day in my own space, with a disciplined, but self-determined routine, and selling my work to an excited audience was transformative, and deeply rewarding. Just a few years earlier in high school in Oakland, CA I never would have guessed that I would be a potter, nor that I would be living at the age of 23 a relatively radical, and independent life. It was and remains a complete miracle. 


Many summers of my life have been spent rock climbing and mountaineering in the high-altitude environment of the American West, whose arid clarity affected and became, perhaps, the most elementary structure of my work. I rarely use exterior glazes, and favor a dry, textured surface impregnated with color, less a glaze than a patina.


In this context, my work is more related to the Neolithic than it is to the post-glaze ceramic art of much of the world, and as such leans more toward an alliance with subliminal experience, and the surreal, than upon known idiomatic, cultural suggestion, or any objective content. 


Particularly important is my emphasis on the totality of an embedded form, scratchy, tactile, and luminous. Of the current show at NOMA Gallery, Rebecca Bafford writes: "Your work in the gallery is spectacular--earthy, sensual, compelling. It was hard to look away from it."

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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


2024 NCECA conference, Monocacy River Pottery Group

2024 Noma Gallery, Frederick, MD Ceramic Invitational

2023 Waverly Street Gallery, one person show

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

2023 Cumberland Valley Art Exhibition, WCMFA, Hagerstown, MD, (also 2018, 2019 2020)

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


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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