Artist

Curtis Benzle

born Lakewood, OH 1949
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Elliott Benzle
Also known as
  • Curtis Munhall Benzle
  • Curtis M. Benzle
Born
Lakewood, Ohio, United States
Active in
  • Hilliard, Ohio, United States
Biography

Curtis Benzle (BEN-zlee) teaches at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. His work is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as the permanent collections of the Museo Internazionale Della Ceramiche, in Faenze, Italy and the Everson Museum, in Syracuse, N.Y.. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council have granted him fellowships. He's the owner of Benzle Applied Arts, a company that makes porcelain lighting and porcelain accessories.

Benzle is on the Board of Trustees of the American Crafts Council, and is Chair of the American Craft Association. In 1993, he was on the National Committe for the Year of American Crafts.

White House Collection of American Crafts exhibition (Washington D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1995)

Works by this artist (4 items)

Sigmund Abeles, Untitled, n.d., etching, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1968.109.2
Untitled
Daten.d.
etching
Not on view
Sigmund Abeles, Self-Portrait with Saddles, 1972, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Frederick P. Nause and Rebecca Nause, 1973.176.2
Self-Portrait with Saddles
Date1972
lithograph on paper
Not on view
Sigmund Abeles, Saddle/Soap, 1972, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Frederick P. Nause and Rebecca Nause, 1973.176.1
Saddle/​Soap
Date1972
lithograph on paper
Not on view