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Bruce Bennett 1950-2025
Nature lover, Stone carver, Deep thinker, Dreamer Bruce could look at a hunk of stone and see what was inside of it–often a fish, sometimes a snake, a caterpillar, a torso, a saint. While much of Bruce’s work was architectural, he was responsible for some of Knoxville’s notable public art. For many years Bruce’s office
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2023 – Bruce Bennett: Alien Monoliths
Bruce Bennett talks about his alien monolith series in this video taken March 6th, 2023, in Knoxville, TN, at the Spring Creek Sanctuary. The series is based on archeological imagery from ancient Mexican civilizations, composing a storyline of an encounter between native people and interstellar visitors. Bruce made five finished panels for this project; there
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2010-Three Eggs in Space Fabrication
Bruce Bennett and his talented craftsman at Custom Marble and Design fabricated Three Eggs in Space for Artist Karen Bailey in 2010. The sculpture stands today in Alexandria, VA. Photo from the Public Art Archive https://publicartarchive.org/art/Three-Eggs-in-Space/b1aa9139
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The Children’s Table at UT Gardens
Bruce Bennetts Children’s Table at UT Gardens September2006
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1997 – First & Future
Bruce Bennet in 1997 with the plaque he made for the Greater Knoxville First & Future 50 Awards.
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1997-Bruce Bennett Creates at Candoro
1997 Knoxville News Sentinel Home and Garden Featuring Bruce Bennett Ronda Robinson featured Bruce Bennett in the Knoxville News Sentinel Home and Garden section in 1997. “Bennett says he likes stone because it has character and invokes a peaceful, warm sensual feeling.”
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1990 Art in the Park
Bruce Bennett featured in the art section of the Knoxville News Sentinel on May 6th, 1990.
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1984 – Furniture in Stone
Bruce Bennett featured in the art section of the Knoxville New Sentinel in July 1984.
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Knobbles by Bruce Bennett
Late one winter night, as I looked around at the pieces of turned wood from my furniture business, I imagined knots becoming faces, knobs turning into heads, and oak spindles forming into legs. Needing Christmas Gifts for friends, I made a few stringless puppets of oak, liickory, and mahogany, joined together with steel eye bolts. Some
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1989 – Bruce Bennett – Nashville Banner
“Craftsman takes Tennessee marble to artistic heights” Beth Monin, Banner Arts Writer.