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Betty Benard

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  • African Earth Mother
  • Batcat
  • Family
  • Fishes
  • Larry Mitchell
  • Nude
  • Spirits and Saints
  • Two People
Betty Benard
Betty Benard

Betty Benard was born in 1935 in Galveston, Texas. She has been creating art in the Creativity Explored studio since 1991 and likes to work in acrylic, mixed media, watercolor, colored pencil, and paper collage.

Benard is a very versatile artist who usually works from memory and/or uses her own imagination. She comes from a large family and enjoys depicting family gatherings — houses filled to overflowing with people and flowers. She enjoys working both figuratively and abstractly. Most recently, she has been combining paints and origami paper and making bold, striking collages. Benard has exhibited frequently throughout the Bay Area and has shown work in Japan.

Betty says she has always liked to make art. According to Betty, everyone has always told her that she is good at it, but she “doesn’t give it too much thought.”

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2008

    • Quarter Century, Creativity Explored

  • 2006

    • Sacred Places, Creativity Explored
    • Avalon Mission Bay, Permanent Collection, San Francisco

  • 2005

    • Revenge of Monster, Creativity Explored
    • In Passing, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

  • 2004

    • Spirits and Saints, Creativity Explored

  • 2003

    • Lit, Creativity Explored

  • 2002

    • Women’s Work, Creativity Explored

  • 1995

    • University of Kansas Art Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas

  • 1993

    • Folk and Tribal Art Show, San Francisco
    • Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco

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