William Hunt, Bill Hunt

EDUCATION

BA College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio

1970 MFA Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

APPRENTICESHIPS & RESIDENCIES

1977 Artist in Residence, Alberta International Ceramics Symposium, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1972-75 Assistant Editor, Ceramics Monthly magazine

1975-81 Managing Editor, Ceramics Monthly magazine

1982-94 Editor, Ceramics Monthly magazine, Columbus, Ohio.

1998 Guest Editor, The Studio Potter magazine.

2012-    Full-time Studio Artist, Delaware, Ohio; and Professor Emeritus, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio

2017-    Editor Emeritus, Ceramics Monthly magazine, Westerville, Ohio

BIOGRAPHY

Bill Hunt is known for blue-and-white functional, high fired bone china[1] and porcelain. Decorative techniques included brush work, stencils and on stoneware, carving and salt glazes. Hunt’s focus as a studio artist is on functional ware; he worked with stoneware and salt-fired early in his career, and became interested in bone china in 1982. 

Hunt is best known as the editor of Ceramics Monthly.

Bill Hunt’s honors include: Lifetime memberships to the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC), Geneva, Switzerland and the National Council on the Education of Ceramic Arts (NCECA).

In 2012 Bill Hunt was elected  as a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts and Graduate Studies at Columbus College of Art & Design (Ohio, USA), where he taught studio ceramics, glaze/clay chemistry and ceramic art history.