PAULA JEANINE BENNETT
AMERICAN CREATIVE

"The longer I walk the creative path, the more I search to express myself in harmonious disciplines. As a percussionist, I have always felt the need for many colors in sound. As a performance and visual artist, I seek textures for my hand, eye and step. As a singer, I often visualize the note before I hit it. As a word person and composer, I want a song to paint a picture in the listener's mind, and if their body moves to the music, all the better. More and more it seems to me that it is all the same clay: timbre, texture, color, movement, song."
-Paula Jeanine Bennett
Paula Jeanine with her mural
"Surround Me With Bliss",
permanently installed at The American Center, Meknes, Morocco.
Inspired by the ancient Bab al-Khemis city gate, it was originally created to be on the floor as a dancing pattern.

Paula Jeanine featured on the Voice of America show "Creative Time" (Indonesia), hosted by Naratama Rukmananda, September 2022. She discusses her "Molecule" project and her life in the arts.
"She does the complete art of her soul." Naratama Rukmananda, VOA host