Recognition:
• Art Collectors throughout North America have been purchasing my paintings for over 30 years.
• National Arts for the Parks Competition Jackson Hole, Wyoming
"Top 100" Region III winner
Steven L. Aschenbrenner Collectors Award
*only artist who has won this award twice
• Annual Hipow Art Auction - Featured Artist
Donation of $10,000 original oil painting which broke 38 year record for highest bidder price
• National Arts for the Parks Competition Jackson Hole, Wyoming
"Top 100" Finalist
Steven L. Aschenbrenner Collectors Award
• Icebergs in the Mist
Steven L. Aschenbrenner Collector's Award
• NATIONAL ARTS FOR THE PARKS COMPETITION - "TOP 100" AND "MINI-5O" Awards Banquet - Jackson Hole, WY
• ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MINIATURE SHOW - New Horizons Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
• ANNUAL HIPOW AUCTION - Invitational - Donation of $1,200 original oil Fairbanks, AK
• ALL ALASKA JURIED ART SHOW - JUROR'S AWARD - Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
• ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MINIATURE SHOW - New Horizons Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
• ANNUAL NATIONAL ARTS FOR THE PARKS COMPETITION - TOP 100** AWARD - Awards Banquet - Jackson Hole, WY
• ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH &GAME - PERCENT FOR ART DIORAMA PAINTING $22,000 mural completed
• UAF STUDENT ART SHOW- University of Fairbanks, AK
• FEATURED ARTIST - Denali State Bank, Fairbanks, AK
• MASTERS AND MENTORS SHOW (Invitational Exhibit) - House of Wood, Fairbanks, AK
• PORTRAIT COMMISSION - Joe Fejes Memorial Concert Fairbanks Symphony Association - displayed in Fejes Memorial Concert Hall, UAF campus
• 11TH ANNUAL ART AUCTION - Fairbanks Arts Association
• FEATURED ARTIST - opening of Robert Morris Gallery, Anchorage, AK
• ALL ALASKA JURIED ART SHOW - Anchorage Museum of History & Art
• JUROR'S AWARD - 64th Parallel Art Exhibit - Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
• 10TH ANNUAL ARTS AUCTION - Fairbanks Arts Association
Education:
• PACO YOUNG PLEIN AIR SEMINAR - Beartooth School of Wildlife Art,Bozeman, MT
• TERRY ISAAC SEMINAR -Beartooth School of Wildlife Art, Bozeman, MT
• CARL BRENDERS SEMINAR - Beartooth School of Wildlife Art, Bozeman, MT
• BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS -School of Visual Arts. 209 East 23 Street. NewYork, NY
• RHODES FAMILY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING STUDENTS - School of Visual Arts, 209 East 23 Street, New York, NY
Teachers:
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, NEW YORK
• Michael Deas (Illustration Dept.) - American Society of Illustrators; artist for U.S.P.S. commemorative portrait stamps of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe
• Don Eddy (Fine Art Dept.) - Nancy Hofiman Gallery, Soho; Cleveland Museum; Toledo Museum of American Art; Whitney Museum
• John Foote (Illustration) - British Watercolor Society and Royal Society of Portrait Painters
• Michael Goldberg (Fine Art) - Museum of Modem Art, NY; Whitney Museum, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Juan Gonzalez* (Fine Art/Illustration)* - Nancy Hoffinan Gallery, Soho; H. Hirschhom Museum, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
• Jan Groth (Fine Art) - Solomon R. Guggenheim Retrospective, NY; Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modem Art, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute; Tate Gallery, London; Musee National d'Art Modeme, Paris; Museum of Modem Art, Oxford; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, Denmark; numerous international museums
• Jane Rosen (Fine Art) - Edward Thorp Gallery
• Frank Roth (Fine Art) - Louis Meisel Gallery, NY; Martha White Gallery, Louisville; Whitney Museum, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; H. Hirschhom Museum, Washington, D.C.; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery, London
• Paul Waldman (Fine Art Dept. Head) - Blum Hellman Gallery, NY; Leo Castelli Gallery, NY; MOMA.NY; Guggenheim;
*Sold several oils to Juan (now deceased) who much admired my work senior year.
BEARTOOTH SCHOOL OF ART - BOZEMAN, MT
• Carl Brenders - world-famous wildlife artist published by Mill Pond Press and regularly exhibited in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's "Birds in Art" and "Wildlife in Art" shows; collected in North America, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Holland Argentina and his native Belgium*
• Terry Isaac - nationally recognized wildlife artist published by Mill Pond Press; Robert Bateman protege; regularly exhibited in the Leigh Yawkey "Birds in Art" and "Wildlife in Art" shows; collected nationally and internationally
* During slide critique, Carl led the class of approximately eighty professional wildlife artists in clapping for a few of us. I was astonished to be included among the few since I consider myself a relative beginner in wildlife, having concentrated much longer on landscape and the occasional portrait. Actually, I'd rather not be straight-jacketed into any one category and chose to study with Carl and Terry as much for their technical ability to render flora, water and other habitat essentials, as for their fauna, fur and feathers.