Title:  Painter, Author/Illustrator, Teacher

Company:  The Jointure For Community Adult Education, Inc.

Location:  Bridgewater, NJ United States

Achievements:

• Inductee, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement (2018)
• Recipient, Bronze Medal in Watercolor Art, National Mystic (Connecticut) Outdoor Art Festival (1977)
• Recipient, Mayor’s Purchase Prize, Franklin Township (1976)
• Recipient, Tri-State Watercolor Award Somerset County College (1978)
• Recipient, Best in Show Award, Raritan Valley Art Association (1978, 1994)
• Recipient, Award, Garden State Watercolor Society (1979, 1984-1985)
• Recipient, First, Second and Best in Show Award Somerset and Westfield Art Associations Shows, First Place for Professional Watercolor, Plainfield Tri-State Arts Festival (1983, 1985, 1987, 1996, 2001)
• Recipient, Award, Northeast Art Festival, Caldwell College (1990, 1995)
• Recipient, Tewksbury Award (1990)
• Recipient, Second Place in Watercolor International Miniature Art Show, Washington (1983)
• Recipient, Best in Show and Grumbacher Award, Caldwell State Show (1984)
• Recipient, First Place, Carrier Clinic Tri-State (1984)
• Recipient, Grumbacher Bronze Award (1984)
• Recipient, Grumbacher Silver Award (1985, 1988, 1994)
• Recipient, Watercolor Award Artists League Central New Jersey Show, Cornelious Lowe Museum (1986)
• Recipient, Winsor-Newton Award American Artists Proleague (1987)
• Recipient, Robert Simmons Award (1989)
• Recipient, Basking Ridge Environmental Center Award (1994)
• Recipient, Best in Show Award, New Jersey State Juried, Piscataway (1988)
• Recipient, Second Place, New Jersey Miniature Art Society (1989)
• Recipient, First Pro Award, Raritan Valley (1992-1993)
• Recipient, First Mixed Media Award, Basking Ridge Environmental Center (1994)
• Recipient, Award, Essex Watercolor Club (1999)
• Recipient, Grumbacher Gold Award, Essex Watercolor Club (2000)
• Recipient, First Pro Award, Bridgewater Arts (2001, 2003)
• Artist-in-Residence Grantee Middlesex Libraries (1983-1992)
• Television Appearance, State of Arts-NJ (1986)
• Television Appearance, Midday (Special Art Shows) (1986)
• Television Appearance, TKR (1995)
• Recipient, Third Place, International Children’s Book Contest, ABC Book Competition (2007)
• Elisha Benjamin Scholar, Brown University (1960)

Designations: 

• Postgraduate Coursework, Pan-American Art Institute
• AB, Cum Laude, Brown University

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