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Garry Knox Bennett is born in Alameda, California 1934 and attended California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC) Oakland, California
Garry's work is in the collections of: Museum of Arts & Design, NY; De Young Museum, San Francisco; Fine Arts Museum, Mobile AL; Judah Magnus Museum, Oakland CA; Mint Museum of Arts + Design, Charlotte NC; Montreal Museum of Art, Canada; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA; Oakland Museum, CA; Racine Art Museum, WI; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, WDC and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
Honors and Awards
2004
Merit Award, Lifetime Achievement
Furniture Society
1996
American Craft Council
College of Fellows
1984
Merit Grant
National Endowment for the Arts
1975
Award
Contemporary Crafts of the Americas
1974
Award
De Anza College
1960
Award
SFMOMA
Videos
Craft In America:
Award winning PBS mini-series (segment) (2007)
Spark Segment: Artist At Work: Garry Knox Bennett
KQED inc. (2005)
Dialog & Interview at the Oakland Museum: Garry with John R. Marlowe and Abby Wasserman, 2001 retrospective exhibition
Oakland venue. (2001)
Cut Loose: New American Furniture Makers: San Francisco CA. (1994 Cine Golden Eagle award)
Minott Weihnacht Productions (1994)
Archives
Smithsonian Institution
2003
Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project: All papers and personal files, photographs and a complete oral history (available on line). All material from ongoing career will continue to be archived.