Exhibits and Awards

·         2010 Second Place Award winner (landscape/interior) in The Artist’s Magazine international student competition; the painting was featured in the magazine’s January/February 2011 issue 

·         2010 Three First Place Awards (portraits and figures division, oils and acrylics nonobjective division and ceramics division), and Third Place Award (mixed media division) State Bar of California Bench and Bar Art Exhibit, Monterey, California (Judges: Chalet Carlin and Tandy Messenger)

·         2010 State Bar of California Bench and Bar Exhibit, Monterey, California

·         2010 Honorable Mention, Alameda County Fair, Pleasanton, California (Jurors  Mildred Howard, Fred Kling and Michael Schwager)

·         2010 Alameda County Fair, Pleasanton, California (oil painting, drawing and photography selected) (Jurors painting:  Mildred Howard, Fred Kling and Michael Schwager; Jurors photography:  Lisa Levine and Gary-Paul Barbosa Prince)

·         2010 Small Works, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, California (Jurors:  Nikki Basch-Davis and Katya Madrid)

·         2010 Award Winner, Las Positas College Art Festival, Livermore, California (Judge:  Lynn Peterson)

·         2010 Third Biennial Ekphrasis Exhibit of Art and Poetry, Livermore, California (Jurors: Cher Wollard and Peggy Schimmelman)

·         2010 Artwork selected for publication in the Las Positas College Anthology (Jurors:  Fredda Cassidy and Eric Berendt)

·         2010 Art of a Community, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, California

·         2010 One Person Show, Moraga Library, Moraga, California

·         2010 Invited to paint a banner promoting Livermore California’s Art Walk; banners are displayed for two months downtown then auctioned