2008 I-Park Artists Residency
2006 Award for Excellence, Geneva Fine Art Fair
Purchase Award, Art in the Barn
2005 Norris Cultural Center Commission for the St. Charles Art & Music Festival
Invited Artist- I-Park
Thanatopolis Memorial Park Commission
First Place Art in your Eye
Best of show, Arts in Riverwoods
Best of Medium, Art in the Barn
2004 I-Park Artists Residency
Finalist in 21st Annual Artists Magazine Art Competition
Best of Medium-Art in the Barn
American Art Collectors Publication
2003 Ragdale Foundation Residency
Best of Show and Medium- Art in the Barn
Finalist Award- Uptown Art Fair
Second Place- Prairie Arts Festival
2001-02 Ragdale Foundation Residency
2000 Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Arts Exhibition -JURORS AWARD
Artistic Fusion 2000 -JURORS AWARD
Ragdale Foundation Residency
1999 Ragdale Foundation Residency
1998 Illinois Arts Council Arts-in Education Grant
1997 Illinois Arts Council Arts-in Education Grant
WOMEN&Mac226;S WORKS 10TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION-JUDGES AWARD
1996 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
Work included in book "In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the of the 90's"
1995 Illinois Arts Council Artists Roster
WOMEN&Mac226;S WORKS 8TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION -ARTISTIC MERIT AWARD
1994 Northern Illinois University Alumni Association Scholarship
THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL JURIED VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION - PURCHASE AWARD
1993 Full Time Graduate Assistantship-School of Art, Illustration nominated for Independent Film Record Label Industries CD Cover of the Year
1988 Northern Illinois University Canon Award for Outstanding Art
Education Graduate
1987 Northern Illinois Academic Scholarship
Illinois Art Education Association Scholarship
1983 Illinois State University School of Art Elizabeth Stein Award
COLLECTIONS
Deloitte Corporate Collection
St. James Hospital
Sloan Valve Company
Carlson Corporation
Dellora A. Norris Cultural Arts Center
Good Shepherd Hospital
PUBLICATIONS
2006 AMERICAN ART COLLECOTR, Book of juried art and craft
2005 AMERICAN ART COLLECOTR, Book of juried art and craft
2003 THE SOURCEBOOK OF ARCHITECTURAL AND INTERIOR ART
2000 ILLINOIS WOMEN ARTISTS: The New Millenium
ART TRENDS Magazine, “Contemporary College”
1998 IN THREE DIMENSIONS: WOMEN SCULPOTRS OF THE 90’S