Bennett Awards worked collaboratively with the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) to create new custom awards for their Founders Award. Now in its 20th year, MoPOP is a leading-edge nonprofit museum in Seattle, dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary pop culture. Since 2007, the Museum of Pop Culture Founders Award has celebrated artists who have made outstanding contributions to pop culture. These unique custom awards were fabricated from steel and aluminum, and the design was inspired by the MoPOP logo and the iconic Museum of Pop Culture building in Seattle.

Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC anchor, was recognized with a custom award from Bennett Awards as the recipient of the 2020 Murrow Ifetime Achievement Award in Journalism. This award honors journalists who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence that exemplifies the career of Edward R. Murrow. For this award, Bennett Awards created a bronze sculpture award in the form of a vintage microphones, similar to the one used by Edward R. Murrow.

Bennett Awards worked with the City of El Paso to create a new, unique custom award design, and produced a set of custom sculpture awards based on this design. The award design was based on ‘Red T. Hawk’, the El Paso International Airport’s mascot. The sculpture awards, which stood approximately 10” tall, were cast in bronze, and featured a golden antique patina.

For the 6th straight year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation presented custom Bennett Awards to the recipients of its Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sports Awards. These recognition awards honor sports teams, athletes, and community-based organizations that use sports to catalyze and sustain changes to make communities healthier places to live, learn, work, and play. These awards were based on a custom design employing a bronze sculpture in the share of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation logo.

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) presented its 2020 recipients of the Wind Champions Awards with custom awards created by Bennett Awards. The Wind Champion Awards recognize a bipartisan group of leaders for helping wind build a sustainable, affordable, and prosperous energy future. Recipients included Governers Andrew Cuoma, Jay Inslee and Kevin Stitt, Senators Chuck Schumer and Lisa Murkowski, and Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Darin LaHood. For these awards, Bennett Awards created unique fabricated aluminum awards in the shape of a wind turbine.

Bennett Awards created a set of unique custom awards for Baylor’s Golden Bruiser Awards. The Golden Bruiser Awards are presented annually to the top student-athletes and teams at Baylor University. The design for these awards is a hand-sculpted sculpture of the Baylor bear. The awards are cast in resin and painted gold.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers commissioned Bennett Awards to create a new, unique custom sculpture award to recognize the 100th anniversary of the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors. The unique award design was based on a geometric bas relief sculpture in the approximate shape of a standing crest. iconic symbols relevant to the National Board’s 100 years of operation were sculpted into the primary component of the sculpture.

The World Polo League presented custom awards from Bennett Awards to the champions of its 2020 Founder’s Cup. The Worlld Polo League is a North American polo league that features the top players and most athletic horses in the world. For this tournament, Bennett Awards created a new, unique sculpture design in the form of a cylindrical cup. The cup’s surfaces are formed in the shape of a horseshoe, and the iconic horseshoe shape is visually communicated on the top rim of the cup. These custom sculpture awards are cast in bronze, and feature a black-crackle patina with high-polished accents.

The Wounded Warrior Project, an organization dedicated to helping the lives of veterans, their familes, and their caregivers, commissioned Bennett Awards to create a unique custom award to commemorate their 2020 Soldier Ride®. This custom award was created to honor President Donald J. Trump. Each year since 2008, Soldier Ride participants have met with the Commander in Chief.

Bennett Awards created a unique set of custom awards for goBeyondProfit, a Georgia-based civic-minded initiative celebrating corporate generosity of all kinds. These awards were based on an abstract sculpture design inspired by their logo. The sculpture angles revealed a greater-than sign in their profile view, and a star image when viewed from above. The sculpture awards were cast in bronze and featured a high polish finish.