Selected Professional Awards:

• Best of Show, Festival of Arts, UWSP, Stevens Point, WI, 2009, 2006, 2003, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995

Award of Excellence, 2008, 2005, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1991

• Best of Show, Marshfield Art Festival, Marshfield, WI 2008

Award of Excellence, 2009, 2007, 2006

• First Place – Ceramics, St. Louis Fine Art Festival, St. Louis, MO, 2007
  
  
• Award of Excellence, Green Lake Fine Arts Festival, Green Lake, WI, 2007
  
  
• Award of Excellence, Wausau Festival of Arts, Wausau, WI, 2006
  
  
• Award of Excellence, Naperville Riverwalk Fine Art Fair, Naperville, IL 2006
  
  
• Award of Excellence, Art on the Square, Belleville, IL, 2003
  
  
• Best of Show - Ceramics, Art Fair on the Square, Madison, WI, 2002
  
  
• First Place 3 Dimensional, Smoky Hill River Festival, Salina, KS, 2002
  
  
• Best of Show, Shaw Art Festival, St. Louis, MO, 2001
  
  
• Best of Show, Des Moines Art Festival, Des Moines, IA, 2000
  
  
• Best of Show, Marion Arts Festival, Marion, IA, 2000
  
  
• Best of Show, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI, 1999
  
  
• Ceramics Award, Winter Park Arts Festival, Winter Park, FL, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1997
  
  
• Coconut Grove Art Festival Award of Excellence, Coconut Grove, FL, 1997, 1991
  
  
• First Place Ceramics, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO, 1994
  
  
• Award of Excellence, Lakefront Festival, Milwaukee, WI, 1993, 1987, 1985, 1981