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Show Prieto Ceramics Exhibition atSUSC 1 it" ssis 1 ,pA 11 iff k ''mtnmm. I, . i. , mmmSmaHkmmm mmmmmmmJ : PLAQUE. A 13" x 3" plaque by Mark Prieto is one of the many ceramic and glass works to be exhibited by ; Prieto family members at an exhibit at the Braithwaite Gallery on the Southern Utah State College campus. The exhibition's opening is tonight beginning at 7 p.m. The show will continue through the month of October. with her sons Esteban and Mark, in private Oakland studios. Mrs. Prieto has served from 1967 to the present as curator of the Antonio Prieto Memorial Ceramic Collection at Mills College. She is the wife of the late, celebrated, ceramic artist, Antonio Prieto. Eunice Prieto has exhibited in a host of competitive and invitational in-vitational exhibitions. She has received considerable recognition for her artistry. She is represented in many public and private collections, collec-tions, including the Folk Crafts Museum, Kurashiki City, Okay a ma-Ken, Japan; Oakland Museum of Fine Arts; and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City. Esteban Prieto has attended the University of Utah, Salt Lake City; the California College of Arts and Crafts; and Laney College, Oakland. He studied primitive pottery with Hal Riegger in Death Valley, California. The artist practices his glassblowing art in his private Oakland studio and conducts demonstrations for schools and other interested groups. He is a member of the San Francisco Potters and Glassblowers Association, the Glass Art Society and the American Craftsmen Association. Esteban has exhibited extensively in one-man, invitational and competitive exhibitions., including American Glass Now, sponsored by the Yamaha Corporation of Japan; National Show of Glass, San Francisco; and Contemporary Con-temporary Glass Objects, San Jose, California. The glassblower has received purchase awards in the Craft Media 1977 exhibition, Walnut Creek; and the 30th Annual San Francisco Arts Festival. He is represented in several public and private collections, including the City of SAn Francisco; and the Forrest Merrill Collection, Berkeley, California. Prieto glass is sold throughout the United States and Japan. Mark Prieto is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. He is a consultant in ceramic arts and processes and has taught and demonstrated his techniques in numerous workshops and art centers. In his private Oakland studio, he specializes in well-thrown well-thrown and handbuilt stoneware and porcelain pieces. His works are available in several galleries and shops in the San Francisco Bay Areea. Mark has exhibited in many California exhibitions, including Mills' College and Caly and Glass 1977, San Francisco. He has received recognition for his The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, announced that an exhibition of recent works in ceramics and glass, by Eunice Prieto and sons Esteban and Mark, will be on display Oct. 4 through 31, 1979. According to Prof. Thomas A. Leek, gallery curator, the exhibition will open with a public reception Thursday evening,' Oct. 4,7 to 9 p.m. Light refreshments win De . served, and the public will have the opportunity op-portunity to meet the artists. The exhibition will be comprised of more than 100 works by the San Francisco Bay Area, prize-winning artists, including stoneware, . porcelain and hand-wrought ... glass. Many of the works will be available for purchase, Prof. Leek said. The public is especially invited to see this extraordinary ex-traordinary exhibition in the Braithwaite Gallery, Prof. Leek said. Gallery visiting hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays. Enice Prieto is a native of Spencerport, New York. She graduated from Alfred University, Alfred, New York, with a B.F.A. degree and from the California College of Arts and Crafts with an M.F.A. degree. Mrs. Prieto has extensive teaching experience in numberous institutions and workshops, including Mills College, Oakland, California; Califor-nia; California College of Arts and Crafts. Oakland; American School of Barcelona, Bar-celona, Spain; and the Walnut ' Creek Summer Ceramics Workshop, Walnut Creek, California. The artist practices her ceramic art, artistry, including a purchase pur-chase award in the 29th Annual San Francisco Art Exhibition. The artist is represented in numerous public and private collections, collec-tions, including the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; Rhode Isaland School of Design ; California College of Arts and Crafts; City of San Francisco Collection; and the Forrest Merrill Collection, Berkeley. Eunice, Esteban and Mark Prieto are all represented in the creditable Antonio Prieto Memorial Ceramic Collection at Mills College in Oakland. |