Bennett Bean is a quintessential American polymath. He is best known as a ceramic artist (for his treatment of vessels post firing); but he works in a range of media including stone, precious metals, wool and silk weaving, paper, painting, and most recently metal sculpture. The scale of these new pieces ranges from tabletop to large scale architectural installation. He has been working full time in studio for the last 25 years. His work is represented by numerous galleries as well as in major museum collections nationwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the White House Art Collection.