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Awards and Commissions

1998 JB Fisher Model School, Artist in Education Grant.

Virginia Commission Study Grant.

1997 Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (Project for "At Risk" Students).
1996 Partners for the Arts grant, Goochland Public Schools.

Virginia Arts Commission-Virginia Community College Residency Grant, Dabney S. Lancaster C.C. Baker School Educare/Bridge Arts Project.

Richmond Public School-Domestic Relations Court.

Buckingham County Artist in Education Grant.

Chesterfield County Public Schools, Art Residency.

1995 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Fairfield School Video profile of violence.
1994 "African American Ancestor Place," Valentine Museum, Richmond Virginia.

Rhode Island School of Design-Mosby Middle School Collaboration. Site Specific Sculpture for two courtyards, Richmond, Virginia.

1993 Artist in Education Residency Grant, Fairfield Court Elementary School. Virginia Commission for the Arts, Richmond, Virginia.

Artist in Education Residency Grant, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Mosby Middle School, Richmond, Virginia.

Study Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts to work with the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Artist in Education Grant for Buckingham County.

1992 Virginia Commission Study Grant, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Artist in Education Grant, for Fairfield Court Elementary School VAC.

Artist in Education Grant, Southampton School, Richmond, Virginia.

Technical Assistance Grant train to teachers in Mural technique.

1990 Named duPont Visiting Scholar by the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, Richmond, Virginia.

Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Inc., Grant. New York, NY.

Robert Rauschenberg's Change, Inc. Grant. Artist Fellowship, Inc. Grant. (Norman Rockwell once won this one.) New York, NY.

1989 Artist in Education Residency Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Arlington County Public Schools.
1987 Artist in Education Residency Grant, Virginia Commission for the Arts, J.R. Tucker High School, Henrico County, Virginia.
1986 Artist in Education Residency Grant, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Petersburg, Virginia Public Schools.

Roanoke Museum Exhibition Grant, the Coors Beer Corporation and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

1975 Artist in the Schools Grant, Carlsbad Public Schools, New Mexico Arts Commission, Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Travel Study Award, "Underemployment and Unemployment in the Arts," Ford Foundation, New York, NY.

1973-75 Grant contracts to Design a College of the Fine Arts for Native Americans, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1973 Grants to conduct sixteen state review of the Artist in the Schools Program. Education Department, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1972-73 Minority Architecture Student Grants, Ford Foundation, New York, NY.

"Discover Graphics" Grant, National Museum of Fine Arts Education Department. National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

1972 Inner City Photography Grant, Polaroid Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1969 Independent Studio Work Grant, Lindsay Trust, New York, NY.

Independent Studio Work Grant, Wyman Foundation, New York, NY.

1968 Vermont Summer Assistance Grant, Jennifer Summer Project Grant ($153,000), Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
1966 Independent Studio Work Grant, Nora Kubie, New York, NY.
1965 Art Students League Scholarship in Sculpture, Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
1964 Board of Control Scholarship for Sculpture, Art Students League of New York, NY.
1963-72 Edward MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1961 Scholarship for Drawing. The New School for Social Research.

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