Alan Bennett

American, b. 1954

Bennett was born in New Jersey in 1954, one of five children in a rural area where he loved to fish, ride horses, and make art. Though he was a painting major in art school, he happened to choose a ceramics class that captured his interest. He went on to receive a BFA in drawing and painting from Arizona State University in 1976 and an MFA in ceramics from Ohio State University in 1980. He was assistant professor of ceramics at Utah State University from 1980 to 1984. Bennett left USU to work as a designer and technical consultant for El Palomar Ceramics in Talaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico. He and his wife have been full-time clay artists working in their studio in Bath, New York, since 1990, where they continue to make a variety of fish.