Hunter Stamps is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington (www.uky.edu/FineArts). Hunter has taught ceramics, three-dimensional design and art history courses at the University of Central Arkansas, the University of Arkansas- Little Rock and at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Hunter received his MFA graduate degree in ceramics at Indiana University in Bloomington and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina in Asheville. 

Hunter’s art work incorporates both sculptural and ceramic processes and techniques. He makes mixed-media sculptures using ceramics, fabricated metal, molds, encaustics, rubbers, and resins that deal with contemporary issues of the body. Hunter’s work is exhibited in national and international juried, invitational and solo exhibitions. His work has been published in periodicals such as Ceramics Monthly and represented by galleries in New York and Washington, D.C.

Stamps is fascinated with kiln technology and has built several soda, salt, and large wood-burning kilns over the years. While at Indiana University he led a group of undergraduates in researching, designing and constructing a kiln fueled by used vegetable oil from local restaurants. Hunter also assists his wife Amelia (www.ameliastamps.com) with her wholesale pottery business and collaborates with her on large scale public art commissions. Their most recent project was a large outdoor ceramic tile mural at Camp Aldersgate in Little Rock, Arkansas.