Meaningful Cups
Chris Staley, Penn State Laureate 2012-2013
A film by Cody Goddard
With additional footage by Bryan Keith
Created for the College of Arts & Architecture at Penn State
With additional support from the Penn State Laureate Program
Ceramicist, designer, painter – Bennett Bean is a quintessential polymath. Best known for his treatment of ceramic vessels post-firing, he works in a range of mediums including stone, precious metals, wool and silk weaving, and painting.
On April 4, 2017 Rago Arts and Auction Center hosted an open house with the ever charming and laugh-out-loud funny Bennett Bean titled, “Be Careful What You Fall in Love With.” Bean presented a brief history of his work and the variety of mediums and formats he has explored over the course of his career, peppered with intimate and humorous looks at a life well lived.
A film by Eric Minh Swenson. (Film number one-thousand thirteen hundred and sixty-nine in the series.)
EMS Legacy Films is a continuing series of short films produced by EMS on artists and exhibitions.
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