Awards and Kudos
2018~Special Merit Award~oil painting “Little Maren V’s Ornithologies”
~Light, Space and Time Online Gallery
2018~1st Place~fabric painting/bead embroidery “Twiggy, 1966” ~Heyde Center for the Arts
2017~Special Merit Award~oil painting “Father Christmas” ~Light, Space and Time, Online Gallery 2015~1st Place~Runner up for the Wisconsin State Fair Poster contest, ~New Allis, WI 2008~1st Place~oil painting “Little Maren V’s Ornithologies”
~Heyde Center for the Arts, Spring Art Exhibit, Chippewa Falls, WI
1990~3rd Place~oil painting “Backstage Cabaret” ~ Spring Art Exhibit, Chippewa Falls, WI 1989~1st place~acrylic painting “Elorah” ~Rock Valley College Student Art Exhibit, Rockford, IL 1990~1st Place~charcoal “Torn” ~Rock Valley College Student Council Art Exhibit, Rockford, IL
2013, 2014 ~Kobe Bead Art Show ~Yokohama, Japan
2010-2017 ~Art Splendor Art Meander, (art crawl) ~Chetek, WI
2009-2015 ~Rice Lake ArtScape Downtown Association Outdoor Banner Project ~Rice Lake, WI
2003-2010~ Owner of 3 Galleries: Nature’s Artisans, The Dog Dance Art Center and
Area Artist’s Emporium ~Chetek, WI
1990-present ~Public and Private Individual Art Sales
1998-1999 ~“Head Rest” Hand Painted/Decorated Pillows: Marshall Fields ~Chicago, IL,
and various gift shops~Galena and Rockford, IL, Maui, Hawaii
1990 Hodel Doll Pattern: Doll Designs Magazine, Vol 7, no. 3, May 1990