AWARDS

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, 2006

Leave of Absence: Two years to create paintings & experience NY art scene. Partially funded by Michigan State University, 1983-85

Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant, Painting, 1983

Sabbatical Leave: Six months research primarily in North Africa (Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco) and Spain. Further study in France and England, Main Focus: North African Art and Architecture, 1981

Michigan State University, All-University Research Initiation Grant, Painting, 1979

Sabbatical Leave: one year research throughout Europe. Main Focus: historical and contemporary art of Europe. Seven months spent in Malnate, Italy, painting in studio, 1973

Michigan State University Summer Research Grant, Painting, 1972

Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, 1966

Michigan State University, All-University Research Grants, annually, 1966-86

AWARDS

Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Bloomfield Art Association, Award of Excellence, Birmingham, 1982

Detroit Art Institute, Fifty-eighth Exhibition for Michigan Artists, Awarded First Prize: the Founders Purchase Prize and One-Man Show, 1970

Detroit Art Institute, Fifty-seventh Exhibition for Michigan Artists, Awarded the Albert Kahn Associated Architects and Engineers Prize, 1969

“Michigan Painting – 68,” Bloomfield Art Association, 2nd Prize, Birmingham, 1968

Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, NY, 1st Prize, 1967

Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, NY, 2nd Prize, 1966

Bethany College Annual, Bethany, West Virginia, 2nd,  Prize, 3rd Prize 1965