BIO

Joel Bennett has been a ceramic artist for

over 45 years, was an adjunct professor of

art at Santa Rosa Junior College for 34 years 

and has been active in the community as an artist-in-residence, art educator, and workshop instructor. 

His interest in traveling started at an early age, and over the past 25 years he’s been involved with ceramic

and sculpture projects in Hungary, France,

Vietnam, El Salvador, Argentina, and Cuba. He

has participated in six International “Encuentros”

in Cuba, and has written articles about ceramics

on the Island that have appeared in Ceramics

Monthly, and the Studio Potter Magazine. He

has also hosted residencies of Cuban,

Colombian, Hungarian, and Vietnamese Artists

here in California that have included exhibitions

and workshops.

     An award-winning ceramist, Bennettʼs work

has been exhibited internationally and represented by galleries throughout California, the Southwest and Midwest.         

www.joelbennett.org