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awards & residencies

2008        Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Painting).
2007        The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards - “Best in Show”
2007        Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, France.
2007        Strictly Painting Award - McLean Project For The Arts
2004        Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Painting).
2003        Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, France.
2003        Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.  
2000        Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, France.
1997        Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
1996        Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
1996        Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont.
1995        Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Painting).
1994        Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont.
1992        Maryland Institute College of Art, Trustees Teaching Award.
1991        Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award (Painting).
1989        Triangle Artist’s Workshop, Pine Plains, New York.  
1975        Cambridge Shirt Award, Art South Africa Today.
1975        Abel Coetzee Award, Johannesburg College of Art.
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lectures

2009        MFA Visiting Artist Lecture Series Fall 2009, MICA
2009        Spring Arts Colloquia "Abstraction(s)" Series, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2008        Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD.
2003        "Art and Autobiography", Shimuzu, Japan