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- Award Winner & Purchase Award, Art Renewal Center International Salon, 2005.
- Finalist, Art Renewal Center International Salon, 2005.
- Top Fifty Award, Salon International 2005, International Musuem of Contemporary Masters of Fine Art, San Antonio, TX, 2005.
- First Place, Mixed Media Division, American Mothers, Inc., 2005.
- Finalist, The Artist's Magazine 21st Annual Art
Competition, 2004.
- Historical Art Award, National Arts for the Parks
Competition, 2004.
- Top Honors Award, Portrait Society of America International Portrait
Competition, 2004 & 2000.
- ARC Staff Award & Figurative Finalist, Art Renewal Center First
Intl Juried Salon, 2004.
- Ruth Richeson/Unison Award-Second overall & Honorable Mention-Figurative
category, Pastel Journals 5th Annual Pastel 100 Competition, 2004.
- First Place, Oil Division, American Mothers, Inc., 2004.
- First Place, Oil Division, Nebraska Mothers Assoc., 2004.
- Juried Show, Pastel Society of America National Competition, New York
City, 2003.
- Award of Merit, Trinidad National Fine Art Exhibition, A.R. Mitchell
Museum, Trinidad, CO, 2003.
- First Place, Watercolor Division, American Mothers, Inc., 2003.
- First Place Watercolor Division, Nebraska Mother's Association, 2003.
- Best of Show, Ernestine Quick Memorial Competition, 2003, 2000, 1998.
- Merit Award, Portrait Society of America International Portrait Competition,
2002.
- Best Portfolio Award, Portrait Society of America International Portrait
Competition, 2002, 2001.
- Outstanding Alumni Award-Artist, Central Community College, 2002.
- First Place & People's Choice Award, Ernestine Quick Memorial
Competition, 2004, 2002, 2001.
- Solo show, Nebraska Governor's Mansion, 2002.
- Selected by the Portrait Society of America as "...a rising star
in the firmament of American portraiture.", The Artist's Magazine,
April, 2001.
- Featured in The International Artist magazine, Oct/Nov, 2000.
- Featured artist in "The Best of Watercolor, Splash 6: The Magic
of Texture", North Light Books, 2000.
- Juried Show, Kansas Watercolor Society 7-State Competition, 2000.
- Juried Show, California Watercolor Association, 1999.
- Best of Show & People's Choice Award, Ernestine Quick Memorial
Competition, 1999.
- Pfizer Labs Viewers' Choice Award & Olive Ann Mateer Memorial
Award, Northern Plains Watercolor Society, 1998.
- Honorable Mention, Nebraska Habitat Stamp Competition, 1998, 1997.
- Featured artist in The Best of Decorative Painting, North Light Books,
1998.
- Honorable Mention, Ernestine Quick Memorial Competition, 1997.
- Second Place, International Decorative Artists' Competition Award,
1995.
- Featured artist representing U.S. in It's a Painter's World, a publication
showcasing artists from six countries, 1995.
- Judge's Award, Annual CAA Spring Show, 1995.
- Selected from more than 30,000 decorative artists to create a piece
for the White House, 1995.
- Grand Prize Winner of the Better Homes & Gardens Decorative Woodcrafts
Magazine "Creative Strokes" Contest, 1994.
- First Place, International Decorative Artist's Competition Award,
1992.
- Awarded CDA (Certified Decorative Artist), National Society of Tole
and Decorative Painters, 1991.
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"...a
rising star in the firmament
of American Portraiture."
--The Artist Magazine, April 2001 |
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Organizations
- Portrait Society of America
- Oil Painters of America
- Pastel Society of America-
Full Signature Status
- MidAmerica Pastel Society-
Master Pastelist
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