Antonio Prieto

Prieto was a nationally-influential ceramics teacher based in the Bay Area. After serving in WWII, he studied at Alfred and then developed the ceramics program at CCAC before succeeding F. Carlton Ball at Mills College in 1950. He brought abstraction from modern art to his surface treatments.

Antonio Prieto, Vessel, Circa 1964, California Visionaries: Seminal Studio Craft, Featuring Works from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection — Antonio Prieto, Vessel, Circa 1964

Antonio Prieto, Vessel detail, Circa 1964, California Visionaries: Seminal Studio Craft, Featuring Works from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection — Antonio Prieto, Vessel, Circa 1964