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Professional Credits

             2010                Honored as "Artist of the Year" at The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake Gala
            2007 -2014       Board Member; The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake
            2007-2011       Chairman for TAACCL Art Auction                                                                                                                                                        2011 Teacher of the Year, Clear Springs High School
            2007 - 2012      Clear Springs High School Lead Art Instructor       
            2007                Educator of the Year for Performing and Visual, Clear Lake High School
            2004                Art Teacher of the Year/ Culture Shapers
            2003                Author and Committee Head for “Painting an Empty Sky” Columbia Memorial
            2003-07          Advanced Placement Studio Art Reader
            2001                Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Award, National Museum of Art in Washington D.C.
            1999-2002      Art Columnist for the Bay Runner Magazine
            1999-2007      Lead Art Instructor, Clear Lake High School
            1980-Present  Art Instructor, Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Museum School of Art
            1998                  Who, Who's of the Southwest
            1995- 1997      Exhibition Chairman for  Artists Unlimited
            1985-1986       Committee Member for the Texas Sesquicentennial Exhibition
            1983-1987       Artist Director, Art League of Houston
            1984-1985       Chairman of the Board of Artists Directors, Art League of Houston
            1979-1989       Art Instructor, James Madison High School
            1982-1989       Art Dept. Head, James Madison High School
            1982-1983       President, Houston Art Education Association
            1982                 Convention Chairperson, Texas Art Education Association
            1982                 City Chairperson, Youth Art Month, Houston
            1981-1982       Program Chairperson, Houston Art Education Association
            1980-1981        Director- Open Studio Gallery

Awards

  2022 Honorable Mention Texas City Art Competition

2020  

2nd Place Painting, Juried Show at the Galveston Art League 2016

 "Fall Juried Show" Galveston Art League  "Best of Show and Honorable Mention"  

2015

2nd Place Sculpture, Galveston Art League Fall Open Competition                                                                                                                                         Honorable Mention, Texas City Art Competition                                                                                                                                                                          1st Place Sculpture Galveston Art League, Winter Show                                                                                                                                                             2014

1st Place Sculpture Galveston Art League, Spring Show                                                                       2nd Place 2-Dimensional & Honorable Mention 3-Dimensional, Galveston Art League Fall Show                                                                                                   2013

Juried TAACCL Masterpiece by Mail Art Competition                                                                                                                                                                2011

 Juried: The Baytown Art League Membership Show                                                                                                                                                               Juried : the Galveston Art League Membership Show                                                                                                                                   

2010

Juror’s Choice Award @ “The Open Door Series “Winter Juried Exhibition TAACCL                                                                                                      2009

Juror's Choice Award "Summer Show" TAACCL

         1st Place Mail Art @ San Jacinto College
2006 Juried The Arts Alliance Center of Clear Lake Membership Show
         4th Place in TAACCL Figurative Show
2004 Commission for Moody National Bank.
2003 Commission for Moody National Bank.
          Juried the 20th National Society of Artists                                                                                                                                                                                                          

2001 National Award, The Lab School of Washington & Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
2000  Honorable Mention, Texas City  1st National Art Competition
         Juried the 26th Annual Art League Show in Galveston
1999 2nd Place Cash Award  25th Annual Art League Show, Galveston
         Commission Grand Cayman Island Museum
1998  First Place Cash Award, Bay Area Artists Colony Art Alliance
         Awards Travel Grant / M.F.A. Houston International Fine Art College, Miami College
1997 Third Place Artists Unlimited Competition, Amaco Bldg. Clear Lake
         Commission The Arts Alliance of Clear Lake                                                                                                                                                                          Juried the 22nd Annual Art League Competition in Galveston     
          Commission, Moody Garden Discovery Center
1996 Cash Award Winner, Artists Unlimited, Juried Competition
1995 Commission, Museum of Science and History, Corpus Christi
1994 Commission, Museum of the Gulf Coast
Honorable Mention, The Electronic Gallery, NAEA Membership
1993 Commission, Brazoria Historical Museum
1991Commission Turks-Caicos Museum
Travel Grant to Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts/ Houston            
Cash Merit Award, National Art Education Association  
1990 Cash Merit Award, Texas Art Education Association , Fort Worth
Commission, Cayman Islands.
1989 Cash Merit Award, National Art Education Association Art Competition, Washington D.C.                                                                                                                              First Place- $600 Cash Award, Pasadena Art League
First Place- $750 Cash Award, & Honorable Mention, Baytown 23rd Annual Art Competition.
Cash Merit Award, Texas Art Education Association, San Antonio, Texas.
1988 Cash Merit Award, Texas Art Education Association, Electronic Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Cash Merit Award, Art League of Houston, Membership Show
1987 First Place - 3-D "Reflections" H.A.E.A. Art Competition, Art Institute of Houston
Merit Award, T.A.E.A., Art Competition,
Cash Merit Award, National Art Education Association Art Competition, Boston, Mass.
Cash Merit Award, Baytown 21st Annual Art Competition
1986 Certificate of Excellence, International Art Competition, New York, Metro Gallery, Green
Street Gallery, N.Y.C.
Purchase Award & Honorable Mention, Baytown 20th Annual Art Competition                                                                                                                                                       Merit Award, T.A.E.A. Electronic Gallery, Corpus Christi
1985 Certificate of Recognition in Honor of The First United States International Fine Art
Competition, Sec. of State, Florida, George Firestone.
Travel Grant to New York and Washington D.C. from the Museum of Fine Arts/Houston.
1984 Best of Show, H.A.E.A. Exhibition, The Art Institute of Houston.
1983 Honorable Mention, Pasadena Art League
1982 Honorable Mention, The Art League Of Houston
Second Place, Houston Art Education Association Exhibition
1981 Purchase Award, Baytown 15th Annual Art Exhibition
1980 Proclamation from Houston's Mayor McConn for The Youth Art Month Activities.
1970 First Place in Drawing, Oil Painting and Sculpture
Second Place in Watercolor, Printmaking and Sculpture, Frankfurt Germany