SELECTED AWARDS & GRANTS
Award | Beauty and Its Opposites, 3rd Annual Encaustic Painting Conference, Beverly, MA. Juror: Nick Copasso, De Cordova Museum, 2009
Artist Fellowship | Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency Abroad Program, Auvillar, France 2008
Artist Fellowship | Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Residency, Sweet Briar, VA, 2001
Award | One-person show, Best of Show, Contemporary Art 1999, Juror: Louis Grachos, Director, Site Santa Fe
Tamarind Printmaking Award | Contemporary ‘97, Juror: Louis Grachos, Director, Site Santa Fe, 1997
Faculty Development Grant | Institute of American Indian Arts to attend The Drawing Marathon, New York Studio School, 1995
Grant | Santa Fe Art Institute and IAIA, Residency with Elizabeth Murray, 1995
Grant | Santa Fe Art Institute and IAIA , Residency with Lynda Benglis, 1993
Award | The Louisiana Competition, Juror: Lowery Stokes Sims, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987
Art in Public Places Endowed Commission | National Endowment for the Arts, 1986
Award | One‑person Show, Festival of New Works, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 1985. Curator: Roberta Smith, New York Times
Installation Grant | The Last Ride, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, 1985
RESIDENCIES
Moulin a’ Nef | Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency Abroad Program, Auvillar, France 2008
Virginia Center for Creative Arts | Artist’s Residency, Sweet Briar, VA, 2001
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
United States Department of State | American Embassy, Johannesburg, South Africa
Agilent Technologies, Inc | Palo Alto, CA
Children’s Hospital | New Orleans, LA
City National Bank | Baton Rouge, LA
U. S. Department of State | American Embassy, Kampala, Uganda
Lowe Investments | Jackson, MS
Novelle, Inc. | Provo, Utah
R&F Handmade Paints | Kingston, NY
Jackson-George Regional Library | (NEA Art in Public Places Commission), Pascagoula, MS
Commission | Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe, Menlo Park, CA,
Commission | United States Department of State, American Embassy, Kampala, Uganda
Commission | Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA
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