MITCHELL, Bennett

PERSONAL:

Male. Education: Grand Valley State University, B.A., 1975; attended Georgetown University, 1985; Vermont College, M.F.A., 1986.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Yellowstone Art Museum, 401 North 27th St., Billings, MT 59101; fax: 406-256-6817. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Teacher at public and private elementary schools, 1976-88; Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, MI, curator of collections and exhibitions, 1988-92; Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, director of Sheehan Gallery, 1992-98; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, curator of collections and exhibitions, 1998-99; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, senior curator. Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, member of board of trustees, 1997-98; juror and panelist for Idaho Commission on the Arts, Utah Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, and Spokane Arts Commission; consultant to Crow's Shadow Institute, Umatilla Reservation.

MEMBER:

American Association of Museums, College Art Association, Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Montana Museums Association, Montana Art Gallery Directors Association, Montana Wildlands Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985; Helen Drutt Award, outstanding commissioned featured essay, Metalsmith, 2002, for "Don Tompkins: A Pioneer of the Vernacular"; fellow, Montana Committee for the Humanities, 2002.

WRITINGS:

Play Disguised: The Jewelry of Ken Cory, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA), 1997.

(Editor and contributor) Theodore Waddell, into the Horizon: Sculpture and Painting, 1960-2000, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA), 2001.

Author of exhibition catalogs and brochures. Contributor to periodicals, including Artweek, Reflex, and Metalsmith. Editor, Passages North, 1989-92; art editor, Calapooya: Journal of Art and Literature, 1999—.