AWARDS

AWARDS
First Place Award (2011): Rancho Mirage Art Affaire, Rancho Mirage, CA.

Best of Photography Award (2011): La Jolla Art and Wine Festival, La Jolla, San Diego, CA.

Best of Category Third Place Award (2011): Port Clinton Arts Festival, Highland Park, Chicago, IL.

Outstanding Achievement Award (2011): Chicago Botanic Gardens Art Festival, Chicago, IL.

Best of Show (2011): Art In The Park, Ojai, CA.

Best of Photography (2011): La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta, CA.

Most Appealing Display (fall 2010): Affaire in the Gardens, Beverly Hills, CA.

Best of Photography (2010): Cantigny Art Festival, Wheaton, IL.

Best of Photography (2010): Lincolnshire Art Festival, Chicago, IL.

Best of Show: Photography (2010): The Woodlands Waterway Art Festival, Woodlands, TX.

Colorgraphix Award (2010): Palm Springs Art Museum Artist Council Members Juried Exhibition.

Benchmark Award (2009): Art In The High Desert, Bend, OR.

Artist Award (2009): Salem Art Fair, Salem, OR.

Invitational Award (2009): Art Fair on the Square, Madison, WI.

Third Place Award (2009): Affaire in the Gardens (spring), Beverly Hills, CA.

First Place Award (2009): Indian Wells Arts Festival, Tennis Garden, Indian Wells, CA.

Third Place Award (2009): Bayou City Arts Festival Spring 2009, Memorial Park, Houston, TX. This award not in category, but of all artists in the whole show!

Award Of Merit (2009): The La Quinta Arts Festival 2009, La Quinta Civic Center Campus, La Quinta CA.

Award Of Merit (2009): Southwest Arts Festival, Empire Polo Club, Indio California. Just one award of merit given in each category!

Most Appealing Display (2008): Affaire in the Gardens (fall), Beverly Hills, CA.

Third Place Award (2008): Affaire in the Gardens (fall), Beverly Hills, CA.

Best Photography Exhibit (2008): Malibu Arts Festival, Malibu, CA.

Third Place Award (2007): Affaire in the Gardens (spring), Beverly Hills, CA. First time for me. The show has a solid reputation for high quality fine art.

First Place Award (2007): City of Palm Springs Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Palm Springs City Hall, Palm Springs, California.

First Place Award (2006): The Southwest Arts Festival, Empire Polo Grounds, Indio, CA.

Poster Artist (2005): The Southwest Arts Festival , Indio, California. www.southwestartsfest.org .

Second Place Award (2005): The Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, California. www.southwestartsfest.org

First Place Award (2004): Art Affaire at Whitewater Park in Rancho Mirage, CA. A juried Fine Art and Selected Crafts Festival produced by Elizabeth Green and the City of Rancho Mirage.

Third Place Award (2004): Indian Wells Arts Festival, Tennis Garden, Indian Wells, California. www.iwaf.net

First Place Award (2004): The Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, California. www.southwestartsfest.org

People's Choice Award (2004): CBS 2/Time Warner Arts Fest for the benefit of the Foundation for the Retarded, Rancho Mirage, California.

First Place Award (2004): City of Palm Springs Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Palm Springs City Hall, Palm Springs, California.

Second Place Award (2003): Indian Wells Arts Festival, Tennis Garden, Indian Wells, California.

First Place Award (2003): City of Palm Springs Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Palm Springs City Hall, Palm Springs, California.

Two First Place Awards and One Second Place Award (2002): City of Palm Springs Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Palm Springs City Hall, Palm Springs, California.

Honorable Mention Award (2001): Palm Springs Desert Museum Artists Council Juried Exhibition, group show, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California.

People’s Choice and Honorable Mention Awards (2001): Artists of the Desert 35th Annual Exhibition, Sky Valley Community Center, Sky Valley, California.

Honorable Mention Award (2001): City of Palm Springs Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Palm Springs City Hall, Palm Springs, California.

First Place Award (2000): Artists of the Desert 34th Annual Exhibition, Sky Valley, California.

15th Annual Business Week Award for Excellence in Corporate Advertising (1999): Created marquee image used in The Timken Company’s award winning trade magazine ad campaign.

IABC Silver Six Award for A Sense of Community (1993): a special publication by Hewlett Packard Corporation documenting some of the company's philanthropic projects around the world.

IABC Gold Quill Award for All Fired Up (1991): a photo essay about fire brigade training commissioned by ARCO for publication in its employee magazine the Spark.

City of Santa Barbara Award for Outstanding Public Service (1983): for photographing and designing brochures for the city Rec. Dept. and for organizing photography for the 1983 Special Olympics book while student at Brooks.