Award of Excellence  Oil Painters of America, West/Southwest
                        Santa Barbara, California
Best of Show  Artists of Colorado 
                        Colorado History Museum Denver, Colorado
Best Still Life  Oil Painters of America, National 
                        Chicago, Illinois
Best Portrait  Oil Painters of America, National
                        San Antonio, Texas
Collector's Choice and People's Choice  Rocky Mountain Plein  
                        Air Painters, Estes Park, Colorado
Artists's Choice & Quick Draw  Manitou Springs Plein Air
                        Manitou Springs, Colorado                   
Collector's Choice for Still Life  Southwest Art Magazine
Jerry's Artorama Prize, WAOW- Women Artist's of the West


Featured in Southwest Art Magazine,  
                   "Celebrating Miniatures" December 2008   
                    "Collector's Choice for Still Life" October 2006
                    "Homage to Spring" May 2003  
                    "Solo Exibition" October 2002
                    "Shared Wisdom with Richard Schmid" June 1998
                    "Figures and Flowers" January 1997

Featured in Western Art Collector, 
                    "WAOWing the Mountain State" February 2009
                    " Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters" Sept. 2008

Feature Article in The Pueblo Chieftain 
                    "Home is Where The Art Is"
                      by Scott Smith ,October 4,2007
                      www.chieftain.com

Granted Signature Membership with Knickerbocker Artists
                    Oil Painters of America
                    Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters
                    Colorado Plein Air Artists

"Storyteller" 30"x24" oil purchased by 
                   the Sangre de Cristo Art Center
                   for the Museum's Permanant Collection