- Third Prize, Dakota Pastels 5th Annual Pastel Competition, Fourth Quarter. 2024
- Named Instructor Emeritus, Art Students League of New York, 2023
- U.S. State Department, Art in Embassies Program, with paintings in Ankara, Turkey and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 2004-2007; Jakarta, Indonesia, 2011- 2013
- Beatrice and Sidney Laufman Award, National Academy of Design, 183rd Annual Exhibition, 2008
- Elected Member, Century Association, 2007
- Invited Artist, Forbes Trinchera Ranch Residency, Ft. Garland, Colorado, 2006
- Emil and Dines Carlsen Award, National Academy of Design, 179th Annual Exhibition, 2004
- U.S. State Department, Art in Embassies Program, with paintings in Ankara, Turkey and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 2004
- Christian Johnson Endeavor Fund, grant for the development of interdisciplinary studies course, “Artists’ Writings,” 1997
- Outstanding Faculty Award, State of Virginia, State Council of Higher Education, 1995
- University of Richmond, PETE grant for the development of interdisciplinary studies course, “Music and the Visual Arts,” 1995
- Distinguished Educator Award, University of Richmond, 1993
- Henry Evans Traveling Fellowship (Columbia University) to study painting in England, 1978
- National Academy of Design, Merit Scholarship, 1979
- Brooklyn Museum Art School, Max Beckmann Scholarship, 1978–79