Awards + Public Speaking
Grants and Awards
2007 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SECA Award nomination
2000 Chinese Study trip, Nantong, China funded by St. Peter's Preparatory School
1997 Northern Italian Fresco Study trip, funded by St. Peter's Preparatory School
1995 Monuments: Women in American History Project, funded by the Geraldine Dodge Foundation
1992 MTC Pride in Paint, City Garden Mural on the side of a Minneapolis Transit bus
in collaboration with 20 Southeast Asian children from a St. Paul housing project
1989 Individual Artist Grant, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Program for Interdisciplinary Artists funded by the NEA & Rockefeller Foundation
1988 and 1987 MN Education Association School Bell Award, for Public Projects
1983 McDonald's Fine Art Collection Competition, Purchase Prize Oak Brook IL
Honors
1993 Minneapolis Art Commission, a mayoral appointment
1991 National Endowment for the Arts - 1991 Interarts panelist
Saturn School of Tomorrow - MN Museum of American Art, Presidential Honors
Northwest 2007 20"X 26" acrylic ink on yupo paper
Public Speaking
2008 Guest Artist, Mithila Art Institute, Madhubani, Bihar ~ India
2007 Panelist, Arts Integration, SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2006 Artist Talk, California Collage of Art ~ Center for Art and Public Life
2004 Panelist, Careers in the Arts, William Patterson University, NJ
2003 Artist Talk - Panelist, The Spirit in Art, Jersey City Museum, NJ
2002 Keynote Speaker, Art and Business: Coming together on the Waterfront, Pro Arts
2001 Artist Talk, Jersey City Museum, NJ
2000 Guest Lecturer, The Nantong Museum of Art, Nantong, China
2000 Guest Lecturer, The Nantong Foreign Language School, Nantong, China
2000 Guest Lecturer, The Browning School, NYC
1996 Guest Lecturer, Rutgers University - Newark Campus, Newark,NJ
1996 Guest Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, New York City
1992 Guest Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Art Department, Minneapolis MN
1990 Panelist, The Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
1989 Panelist, Arts in Alabama Conference, Huntsville, AL
1987 Panelist, Artists in Education Conference, Minneapolis College of Art Design
1987 Guest Lecturer, Lunchtime Lecture, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul
Community-based Public Art Projects
KIPPS Summit Academy, California
SF Schools of the Sacred Heart, California
Seton Center, Jersey City, NJ
The Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL
Rochester Art Center, MN
The Edina Art Center, Edina, MN
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
SNAP Mural Projects, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN with the Landmark Corporation and the City of St. Paul, MN
Minneapolis Public Schools and the Transit Station Installation - Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
Summer in the City, 4' × 100' mural designed for the American Bank Building, St. Paul, MN in cooperation with the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the Hmong American Partnership