Résumé
Education
| B.B.A. University of Georgia |
| M.F.A. State University of New York |
Professional Experience
| 1985 – 2004 |
Professor State University of New York, New Paltz |
| 2002 - 2004 |
Chair, Art Department State University of New York, New Paltz |
| 1999 – 2005 |
Graduate Coordinator State University of New York, New Paltz |
| 1980 – 1985 |
Professor Boston University, Program in Artisanry,
Boston, MA |
Fellowships, Awards, Grants
| 2003 |
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity, SUNY |
| 2000 |
SUNY New Paltz Faculty Research Grant |
| 1999, 1990 |
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship |
| 1988, 1979, 1973 |
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship |
| 1984 |
Massachusetts Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Council for the Arts |
Publications: Books, Catalogs and Articles
| Darty, Linda, Art of Enameling, Lark Books, 04 |
| 500 Brooches Lark Books |
| International Digital Enamel Achieve, University of the West, Bristol, England 04 |
| The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, Lark Books, 04 |
| Gregg, Gail What They’re Teaching Art Students These Days,
Art News, pg.106-109, April 2003 |
| Mayfield, Signe Brilliant! Masters of Fired Enamel, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA (catalog) 2003 |
| Goss, Gretchen, Exhibition in Print, Metalsmith Magazine pg.8,17,
Volume 23, #4 2003 |
| Bennett/Mimlitsch-Gray, Markers in Contemporary Metal,
Gallery Guide, co-authored with Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, January 29 2002 |
| Dubois, Alan, Metal Under Glass, review, American Craft Magazine, August 02, pg.53-55, 2002 |
| Modena, Charlene, Jamie Bennett, Blue Pleasures, review,
Metalsmith Magazine, Winter, 2002 pg.52 |
| Uzelac, Ellen, Enamel Rising, review, American Style Magazine,
Fall 2002, pg 92-95 |
| Hocklander, Sony, Beauty of enamel art… News-Leader,
St Louis March 12, 2002, pg B1 |
| Carlock, Marty; 21st Century Metalsmiths: Individual and Collaborative Works; Sculpture Magazine, January 2002 |
| Metal Under Glass; catalog, Essay by Kathline Browne |
| Stigma of Beauty catalog March 2002 |
| Rosolowski,Tracey A, Markers in Contemporary Metal, review, Metalsmith Magazine, Fall 2002, pg 51 |
| Brown, Glen R., Metal Under Glass, Metalsmith Magazine, Fall 2002, pg. 49 |
| Cassai, Mary; Metalsmiths exhibit… Daily Freeman, March 8,
pg. 8, 2002 |
| Nusser, Ericka; Metals are more than material Oracle, March 7, pg 10 |
| Porges, Maria; Jewelry as Installation, American Craft Magazine, Feb/March, 02 pg. 72-79 |
| Bennett/Mimlitsch-Gray; Pedagogy in Metalsmithing, How It Affects Creative Activity In The Field, 2001. A position paper, completed in Metal 09732, Spring/Bennett by Metal Graduate Students. I oversaw the development and the drafting of this paper, as well as its distribution to other colleges with Metal programs. Edited by M.Mimlitsch-Gray. |
| Bennett, James; Color and Reflection catalog essay, Looking to Learn, Learning to Make 2001 |
| Jonsson, Love; Preciost, Form Magazine, pg. 30 Stockholm, Sweden, Summer, 2001 |
| Mikromegas; Bayerricher Kunstgewerbe-Verein, work appeared in exhibition catalog Munich, Germany, 2001 |
| Park, Joohye; Nouvel Obiet V Jamie Bennett, pgs. 31-35 Book, Design House Publishing, 2000 |
| Simon-Robler; Angelicka; Farbe aus dem Feuer, pgs. 26, 49, 91, 144-145 – Book, Ruhle-Diebener-Verlag, 2000 |
| Phillips, Clare; Jewels and Jewelry from the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, pg. 46-47 Book, Victoria and Albert Publishing, 2000 |
| Pratt, Rosalind; Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Jewellery, CD-ROM published by University of Central England, Birmingham, ENGLAND, 2000 |
| Hiko Press; Jamie Bennett, Workshop Exhibition, Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry, Tokyo, JAPAN catalog, Autumn, 2000 |
| International Bijou, Book, pg. 64, Regard, Paris, 1999 |
| Chongju International Biennale, pg162, Book, Chang Associates, KOREA |
| Jamie Bennett, Ordinary Sites; Catalog, Clark Gallery Boston, MA, 1999 |
| 99 Seoul International Metal Invitational Exhibition, Catalog, Seoul Art Center, KOREA, 1999 |
| Beyond the Obvious/ Rethinking Jewelry; Catalog, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, California, 1999 |
| Campus Faces Are Captured In New Mural; The Beacon Journal, March 20, 1999, pg. B1 |
| Schmuck Magazin Klingenstein, Eva Collectors Guide 4000 Jahre Metall, Glas und Feuer; pg. 86, March, 98 (German goldsmithing magazine) |
| Bennett, James; Metalsmith magazine Jewelry Mediating Jewelry pg. 25-33 Winter, 1998 Volume 18, Number 1 cover story |
| Metcalf, Bruce; Metalsmith magazine Recent Sightings pg.8, Spring 98, Volume 18 Number 2 |
| Bennett, James; Metalsmith magazine Recent Slightings pg.10-12, Fall 98, Volume 18, Number 3 |
| Game, Goring; Jewelry Moves; Ornament for the 21st Century Book, National Museum of Scotland Press, England |
| Dictionary of Jewelry; essay by Toni Greenbaum, Editions du Regard, Paris |
Selected Exhibitions: One Person and Group
| 2005 |
Jamie Bennett, Abstracting Eden, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA |
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June Show, Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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Enameling 2005, curated by Goss/Phillips, Cleveland, OH |
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The Art of Enameling, Taboo Studio, San Diego, CA |
| 2004 |
The Perfect Collection, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA |
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The Nature of Craft, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC |
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Treasures from the Vault, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, NY |
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Jamie Bennett, Landscape Vignettes, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA |
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Gold, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA |
| 2003 |
Ornament as Content Hay Gallery, Portland, Maine |
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Craft Transformed, Boston University’s Program in Artisanry 1975- 1985
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA Sept. 2003 |
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Micromegas, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia March, 2003 |
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Micromegas, Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, Australia |
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ICE, Heller Gallery, NYC, NY Dec, 2003 |
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Jewels and Jems, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum Sept. 2003 |
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Transformation, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA |
| 2002 |
2002 Spectrum Gallery, Munich, GERMANY |
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Glass on Metal Southwest Missouri State, Springfield, MissouriTravel to: Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee |
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Markers in Contemporary Metal Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY at New Paltz, NY |
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Generating Connections - Emerging Artists & Mentors Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA |
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Expressions; Clay, Fiber, Metal Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| 2001 |
Jamie Bennett, Smyckekonstnar fran USA, Gallieri Hnoss, Gothenburg, SWEDEN |
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Jamie Bennett, Blue Pleasures Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA |
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Twenty Pendants, Jamie Bennett Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA |
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Jewelry as Object of Installation, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA |
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Enamel Jewelry, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI |
| 2000 |
Jamie Bennett, New Work, Gallery “YU”, Mizuno College of Jewelry, Tokyo, JAPAN |
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Jamie Bennett, Schmuckobjekte, Tiller&Ernst Gallery, Vienna AUSTRIA |
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PRECIOUS, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA |
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Five From New Paltz, New York Foundation for the Arts Recipients, Woodstock Art Guild, Woodstock, NY |
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Jamie Bennett, New Work, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, MA |
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Beyond the Obvious, Rethinking Jewelry, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR |
| 1999 |
Jamie Bennett, Gardening, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA May, 1999 |
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Masterworks, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA |
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1950-2000, Fifty Years of Studio Jewelry, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA |
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Inaugural Exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC |
| 1998 |
Jamie Bennett Jurjani Series, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA |
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Jewellery Moves, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND |
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Email, Atelier Fur Schmuck, Stuttgart, GERMANY |
| 1997 |
Three Generations, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA |
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Celebrating American Craft, Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, DENMARK |
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New Times, New Thinking Jewellry in Europe and America, National Museum of Wales, ENGLAND |
Selected One Person Exhibitions 1978 -1996
| Jamie Bennett, New Works The Works Gallery, Southampton, New York, 1978 |
| Jamie Bennett, Metalwork and Drawings, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, 1981 |
| Bennett/New Constructions, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA, 1982 |
| Jamie Bennett, Plum Gallery, Washington, DC 1983 |
| Jamie Bennett, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1985 |
| Jamie Bennett/USA Galerie,ph Debray, Riihimaki, FINLAND 1987 |
| Jamie Bennett, Drawings and Boxes, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1987 |
| Jamie Bennett, Recent Works, Fergus-Jean Gallery, Cleveland, OH 1988 |
| Jamie Bennett, Paintings, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1989 |
| Jamie Bennett, Coloratura CDK Gallery, NYC, NY 1989 |
| Bennett Recent Jewelry Schnieder Gallery, Chicago, IL 1990 |
| Bennett/ Small Drawings J Cotter Gallery, Vail, CO 1990 |
| James Bennett-Encaustic Paintings Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1991 |
| James Bennett- Seize annees de creation, 1976-1992 Galerie Jocelyne Glbeil, Montreal, CANADA 1992 |
| Jamie Bennett, The Domestic Distance Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1993 |
| Jamie Bennett, Ambage Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1994 |
| Jamie Bennett, Time and Meaning Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1995 |
| James Bennett, Jewelry Barbara Okun Gallery, Tesuque, NM 1996 |
Selected Group Exhibitions 1976 -1996
| Schmuck-Tnedenzen 77 Pfortzheim Schmuckmuseum Pfortzheim, GERMANY 1977 |
| 13th Biennial Prints, Drawings Exhibition Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR 1978 |
| Modern American Jewelry Exhibition Mikimoto Galleries, Tokyo, JAPAN, 1978 |
| American Goldsmith European Traveling Exhibition,
Deutsches Goldschmie de Haus, Hanau, GERMANY; Provincial Museum Vor Kunstambachten, Antwerp, BELGIUM; Goldsmith Hall, London, ENGLAND; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, SWITZERLAND 1978-81 |
| Schmuck International 1900-1980 Kunstlenhaus, Vienna, AUSTRIA 1980 |
| Emal Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London, ENGLAND |
| 81 International Exhibition of Enameling Art Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN 1981 |
| Jewelry USA American Craft Museum NYC, NY 1984 |
| American Masters- Jewelry Since 1950 Victoria and Albert Museum London, ENGLAND 1985 |
| ORNAMENTA Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, GERMANY 1989 |
| Email Internationale, Gay lu Sac, Limoges, FRANCE 1990 |
| Five Enamelists, Hipotessi Gallery, Barcelona, SPAIN 1990 |
| Internationale Craft Triennale, Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AUSTRALIA 1992 |
| CRAFTS USA, The Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, PORTUGAL 1993 |
| IN TOUCH New Craft Forms, Olympic Village Hall Lillehammer, NORWAY 1994 |
| New Times New Thinking: Jewellery in Europe and America,
Crafts Council London, ENGLAND 1996 |
| Subjects 96 International Jewelry Art Exhibition, Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju, FINLAND 1996 |
Selected Public Collections:
| Akron University, Akron, OH |
| Arkansas Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR |
| Arrowmont Center for Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN |
| Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design, NYC, NY |
| American Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC |
| Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA |
| Sameul Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY at New Paltz, NY |
| University Museum, University of Georgia, Athens, GA |
| Kunstsmuseum of Art, Oslo, NORWAY |
| Kusntsmuseum of Art, Trondheim, NORWAY |
| Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC |
| Mizuno Collection of International Jewelry, Mizuno College of Jewelry, Tokyo, JAPAN |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
| Museum of Western Australia, Perth, AUSTRALIA |
| Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, FRANCE |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| Racine Museum of Art, Racine, WI |
| Rohss Museum of Art, Gothenburg, SWEDEN |
| Royal College of Art, London, ENGLAND |
| Victoria and Albert Museum, London, ENGLAND |
Lectures Presented, Juror, Curator, and Visiting Artist
| Lecture: Jamie Bennett, Recent Works, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2005 |
| Lecture: Ornamental Habits, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2004 |
Lecture, Residency, Jamie Bennett, Recent Works, Corcoran School of Art,
Washington, DC, 2004 |
| Lecture: Historicizing in American Metal, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2004 |
Lecture: The Evocative Object, in conjunction with opening reception of exhibition:
Evocative Objects: Studio Metalsmithing and Jewelry. Rhode Island College, 2003 |
| Lecture: Sins of the Sublime, at Towson University, Towson, MD, 2003 |
| Panel Discussion: Contemporary Enameling, Newark Museum of Art Newark, NJ |
| Lecture: Developments in Contemporary Enamel, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, 2002 |
| Lecture: Jamie Bennett, New Work, Society of North American Goldsmiths featured speaker. SOFA, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, 2002 |
| Symposium: Educator’s Dialogue Forum, Society of North American Goldsmiths Annual Conference, Denver, CO. Symposium Coordinator and Director of Educator’s Dialogue Forum. This is a forum on education I organize for the Society of North American Goldsmiths. There were 15 speakers, including myself. Among the presenters were a group of New Paltz Metal Graduate Students who presented a position paper |
| Lecture/Symposium: Sterling Modernities: International and American Silver from The Arts and Crafts Movement to the Present. New York University, NYC, NY Paper presented: Contemporary Silver: Irony and Empathy, 2002 |
| Symposium: Markers in Contemporary Metal coordinated with Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Art Department, SUNY at New Paltz, 2002 |
| Lecture: Jewelry and Ornamental Impulses, presented at Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, Richmond, VA, 2001 |
| Lecture: Jamie Bennett, Recent Works, presented at The Rohss Museum, Gothenburg, SWEDEN, 2001 |
| Artist in Residence: Kunsthal, School of Art and Design, Blue Jewelry Gothenburg, SWEDEN, 2001 |
| Lecture: Conversations with Jamie Bennett, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2000 |
| Artist in Residence: The Culture of Jewelry, Mizuno College of Jewelry, Tokyo, Japan, 2000 |
| Artist In Residence: Myers School of Art, Akron University February 21-March 20.
Completed a 5’ x 10’ enameled tile wall relief permanently installed at the entrance way to art building, 1999 |
| Artist In Residence: Munich Academy of Art Jewelry Department,
Munich, Germany. Worked on a one-week collaborative project with the graduate students. May 16- 23, 1999 |
| Visiting Artist: Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH Lecture: Ornamentation, It’s Not A Sin, 1999 |
| Visiting Artist: Berlin Institute of Art, Berlin, GERMANY Lectures: Jamie Bennett / Recent Work & American Jewelry 1999 |
| Symposium: The Future of Crafts Education and The Crafts, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1999 |
| Curator: Craft Mediating Culture, Craft Student League, NYC, NY An exhibition of Lisa Norton, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Jonathan Wahl, Julia Jiannacopolos, Darren Jzwarski, 1998 |
| Keynote Speaker: Symposium - Traditions and Transformations, Working Locally An International Enameling Conference, Arrowmont, TN, 1998 |
| Visiting Artist: Jamie Bennett, Recent Work,
Akron University, Akron, OH, 1998 |
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