Elliot Melville Offner (July 12, 1931 – October 15, 2010) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker and typographer, and longtime professor of art at Smith College.
His public works include "Loon, Great Blue Heron and Grouse", at the Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN; "Child With Dog", Children's Inn, National Institute of Health, Washington, DC; "Monument to the Letter Carriers of America", Milwaukee, WI, "Holocaust Memorial Figure", Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, "Karl Lehmann Memorial Plaque", Archaeological Museum, Samothrace, Greece, among numerous others.
In 2007, for the first time in a decade, the National Sculpture Society granted its Medal of Honor to Offner, and featured the artist in its Sculptor Profile.
Also in 2007, Brookgreen Gardens in Pawley's Island, SC, opened the Elliot and Rosemary Offner Sculpture Learning & Research Center.
Brookgreen Gardens is a National Historic Landmark with the most significant collection of figurative sculpture in an outdoor setting by American artists in the world.