2007 Kansas Governor’s Arts Award, Individual Artist, Visual Arts
Fellow, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
2006 Juror’s Award, Kansas Artist Craftsman Association Members’ Exhitition.
Juror: Paul Smith, Former Director, American Craft Museum, New York
Who’s Who of American Women
2005 Residency, The Pottery Workshop Experimental Factory, Jingdezhen, China
Artist of the Year, Emporia Arts Council Who’s Who of American Teachers
2003 Who’s Who in America
2001 Who’s Who in America
2000 Who’s Who of American Women: Millennium Edition
2000 Summer Residency, International Ceramic Center, Skaelskor, Denmark
1999 Summer Residency, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
1999 Recipient, Summer OOE Faculty Research Grant, “Atmospheric Firing”
1998 Juror’s Award, Salina Art Center Regional Juried Exhibition
1997 Recipient, Summer OOE Faculty Research Grant, “Clay-to-Bronze Vessels”
1997 Purchase Award, “Topeka Competition,” Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library
1994-1995 Graduate Fellowship Recipient, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1990 to 1992 President’s List, University of Wyoming
1991 to 1992 Recipient, Academic Scholarship, University of Wyoming
1990 Paul Stock Grant-In-Aid, University of Wyoming