selected curriculum vitae

Education
B.B.A. University of Georgia
M.F.A. State University of New York at New Paltz

Selected Public Collections:
•  Akron University, Akron, OH
•  Arkansas Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR
•  Arrowmont Center for Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
•  Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
•  Museum of 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
•  Fidelity Insurance Collection, Boston, MA
•  University Museum, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
•  Kunstsmuseum of Art, Oslo, NORWAY
•  Kusntsmuseum of Art, Trondheim, NORWAY
•  Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
•  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, NY
•  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
•  Yale Museum of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
•  Victoria and Albert Museum, London, ENGLAND

Professional Experience
2005 Sept-Dec Artist in Residence Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY
1985 – present 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
2006 Rotasa Foundation Grant in support of retrospective exhibition at Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
2006 Windgate Foundation Grant in support of retrospective exhibition at Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
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
•  Frankl, Elizabeth, Edge of the Sublime, The Enamels of Jamie Bennett , Ornament, 31. 3 2008
•  Norris, Scott Edge of the Sublime, The Enamels of Jamie Bennett, American Craft, apr 08
•  Falion, Jeannine, Edge of the Sublime, The Enamels of Jamie Bennett , Hudson Bay Press, 07
•  Atkins, David, illustrated by Quiles ,Leonardo CONFESSION, Q Press, 08\
•  Strauss, Cindy , Ornament as Art , Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2007
•  Mizuno, Takahiko Contemporary Jewelry, pg 117-125, Oshita 2006
•  Sienna Gallery, Jamie Bennett, Abstracting Eden, exhibition catalog, Q Press, 06
•  Neuman, Ursula Der Schmuck entdeckt Amerika Kunsthandwerk & Design,March 06
•  Losche, Wolfgang Schmuck 06 , Handwerkskammerr fur Munchen, (catalog)
•  Brown, Glen Jamie Bennett, In Deference to the Decorative Metalsmith Magazine, pg 18-25     volume 26,2006
•  Darty, Linda Art of Enameling , Lark Books, 04

Selected Exhibitions: solo and group

2008  Edge of the Sublime, The Enamels of Jamie Bennett , Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
       Traveling nationally through 2010 National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis , TN June        08 Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY Sept. 08
Posteriori, New Work SOFA New York, Armory June 08
Out of the Shell, Loupe Gallery, Montclair, NJ
The Ring Show, Then and Now, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2007
Hnoss Depended, Rohasska Museum, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Field of Vision, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Ornament As Art, Avant-Garde Jewelry From the Helen Williams Drutt Collection,
   The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Jewelry by Artists, The Daphne Farago Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2006
Schmuck 2006 , Handwerkskammer fur Munchen, Munich, Germany
Schmuck 2006 Museum of Arts and Design NYC, NY
Challenging the Chatelanine! Design Museo, Helsinki, Finland

2005
Jamie Bennett, Abstracting Eden, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA
Juxtapositions Sameul Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
The Art of Enameling, curated by Goss/Phillips, Cleveland, OH
Enameling 2005, Taboo Gallery, San Diego, CA

2004
The Perfect Collection, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
The Nature of Craft, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Treasures from the Vault, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, NY
Jamie Bennett, Landscape Vignettes , Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

2003
Craft Transformed, Boston University's Program in Artisanry 1975- 1985 Fuller Museum of Art,     Brockton, MA Sept. 2003
Micromegas , Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia March, 2003
Jewels and Jems , Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum Sept. 2003

2002
Spectrum Gallery, Munich, GERMANY
Expressions; Clay, Fiber, Metal Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2001
Jamie Bennett, Smyckekonstnar fran USA, Gallieri Hnoss, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Jamie Bennett, Blue Pleasures Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Twenty Pendants, Jamie Bennett Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA

2000
Jamie Bennett, New Work , Gallery “YU”, Mizuno College of Jewelry, Tokyo, JAPAN
Jamie Bennett, Schmuckobjekte , Tiller&Ernst Gallery, Vienna AUSTRIA
PRECIOUS , Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA
Five From New Paltz , New York Foundation for the Arts Recipients, Woodstock Art Guild, Woodstock, NY
Jamie Bennett, New Work , Mobilia Gallery, Boston, MA
Beyond the Obvious, Rethinking Jewelry , Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock Arkansas