Face to FACE with Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt, founders of The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters

by Laura Vailati 20 February 2020

If the Baltimore Museum of Art's news of wanting to only buy works by female artists in 2020, taking a stand on the gender imbalance within the institution, has somehow shaken up the art market, certainly, the initiative did not surprise Steven Alan Bennett and his wife, and co-curator, Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt.  Art collectors from San Antonio, Texas, Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt began collecting works of ...