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Portrait by Catherine Prescott
Blue Sweater, Oil on Canvas, 2021, 36 x 26”
My wife and I live outside of Harrisburg, PA. My studio is in the top floor of a wonderful old bank barn, and usually cluttered with materials I love, tools, and a piece or two in various stages of completion. I studied art at the Colorado College, and got my MFA is sculpture from the Rinehart School of Sculpture, at MICA. Professionally my life has been divided between three activities. Teaching is largely past tense now, but I started the studio art program at Messiah College (now University) in 1980. I served as Department Chair, held two successive Distinguished Professorships, and retired as Emeritus Professor of Art in 2009. I’ve also taught in Gordon College’s art intensive program in Orvieto Italy several times.
I’ve written about art a good bit too. I’ve had articles and essays published in several venues, including Image, American Arts Quarterly, and The New Criterion. I’ve written several catalog essays, edited a book about contemporary figurative art, A Broken Beauty, and curated an exhibition that included publishing a catalog about recent Jewish and Christian art, Like a Prayer. I wrote for and edited the art and faith organization CIVA’s ( Christians in the Visual Arts ) publication for over ten years and served as the organization’s second president.
My sculptural practices tend to be “slow”, and yet I’ve exhibited extensively, have completed a number of commissions, and have work in some public collections. I’m proud to have work in the Vatican Museum’s Collection of Modern Religious Art. In sculpture I’m drawn to the nature of materials, and while versatile in the use of traditional materials like wood, stone, and metals, often employ unconventional things. I love the poetic resonances that can occur between forms and materials. The vocabulary of my sculpture is indebted to modernism, but I find continuity with the past, and do not believe that what is new negates what is old.
Theodore Prescott, Sculptor
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