Awards & Honors

2018 Honorable Mention, 'Trash to Treasure', Tubac Art and Gifts, Tubac AZ

2008 Legacy Award, “Photography at High Speed”, Millard Sheets Center for the Arts, L.A. County Fair, Pomona, CA

2002 Merit Award, 'California Works Exhibition', California State Fair, Sacramento, CA

1998 “Compliments of the House Award” from The Lynchburg Area Juried Show Lynchburg fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA

1996 Honorable Mention from “The Area Photography Show” Dillard Gallery, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA

1995 Award from “The Area Photography Show” Dillard Gallery, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA

1994 Sculpture Award at “Galex 28" Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL

1994 Artistic Excellence Award at “The 15th Annual Maple City Fine Arts Exhibit”, Geneseo, IL

1992 Honorable Mention Award at the “Water Tower Annual” Louisville Art Assoc. Louisville, KY.

1991 Third Place Award at “1991 Biennial Exhibition” Fuller Lodge Art Center, Los Alamos, NM

1991Edith McAshan Cash Award at “Counterpoint “ Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX.

1990 Cash Award at “Confluence” Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX

1990 Touring Citation with “At the Edge II” Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX.

1989 Purchase Prize Award “1st Annual Wilson Collegiate Arts Competition” Wilson Business Products, Houston, TX

1989 Cash Award, “23rd Annual National Show” Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX

1989 Scholarship “Azienda Tursimo di Cortona” University of Georgia Studies Abroad, Cortona, Italy

1988-90 Graduate Student Art Scholarship, University of Texas at San Antonio

1986-87 Grants for year of study, The Banff Center, School of Fine Arts, Banff, AB, Canada

1986 “The Hamilton-Gillespie Award for Ceramics”, University of the Arts, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA