Steven Alan Bennett is the founder of The Bennett Collection of Women Realists, an art collection dedicated exclusively to paintings of women by women. Included in The Bennett Collection are works by some of the most exciting contemporary and important historical women painters--- Margaret Bowland, Aleah Chapin, Zoey Frank, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elaine de Kooning, Alyssa Monks, Katie O’Hagan, Elisabetta Sirani and dozens of others. The Collection has been featured in numerous national and international arts publications including American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, Beautiful Bizarre and others. www.thebennettartcollection.com

Bennett is also the co-founder, along with his spouse, Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt, of The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realists, a biannual art prize that awards $50,000 to a woman painter so that she may mount her own solo show that travels the country. www.thebennettprize.org

In addition to these activities, Bennett and Schmidt are independent curators and philanthropists supporting various arts and human welfare initiatives. Their most recent effort is sponsoring The Femme Touch, an exhibition that studies the influence of women on the life and art of Andy Warhol, which opens at The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in April, 2020.