Francis Whitaker (1906 - October 3 1999) was a blacksmith in Carmel California and later an artist-in-residence at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale CO.He was born in Woburn Massachusetts and died in Glenwood Springs Colorado. In 1995 he received the Colorado Council on the Arts Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 1997 he received the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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