Distinctions

Selected List of Group Exhibitions

The Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors (Old Forge, NY); The American Watercolos Society; The Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, OH); California Watercolor Association; The Cincinnati Art Club; The Gateway National Juried Art Show (Farmington, NM); Illinois Institute of Art; National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society; The National Watercolor Society; The Ohio Watercolor Society; Oil Painters of America; The Pastel Society of America; The Pennsylvania Watercolor Society; The Philadelphia Watercolor Society; The Pittsburgh Watercolor Society; The Salmagundi Open (NY).

Granted signature status; The American Watercolor Society; 2018

11th Annual Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry Juried Exhibition; Columbus, OH; Juror's Choice Award; 2018

Feature article The Art of Watercolour; Paris, France; issue 26; 2017

Finalist in Competitions sponsored by The Art of Watercolour; Paris, France; issues 22, 23 and 25; 2016

39th Annual Fairmount Juried Exhibition; Fairmount Center for the Arts; Novelty, OH; Best of Show and First Place in painting; 2015

Jerry's Artarama 2014 Self-Portrait competition; Honorable Mention ( 1 of 33 winners)
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Southwest Art Magazine Artistic Excellence Competition; Top 40; 2011

52 Weeks/52 Works Desk Calendar; Academy Graphic Communication, Inc. (Cleveland, OH);  2007- 2016

Kaleidoscope Award (people's choice); Summit Artspace (Akron, OH); 2009, 2005

Holiday Card selection; Cleveland Sight Center; 2007

First Night Akron button/poster artist 2007

Inclusion in Strokes of Genius, The Best of Drawing; North Light Books, Cincinnati, OH 2007

Representation in Resource of Art Quotations  

Inclusion in How Did You Paint That?:  100 Ways to Paint People &  Figures; Volume 2, International Artist Publishing, Inc.; Verdi, NV; 2005

One of eight painters to be awarded and exhibited by The Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation; NY, NY

Gold Medal of Honor; The Ohio Watercolor Society; 2001

Purchase Award; Watercolor U.S.A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO

Purchase Award; The Ohio Watercolor Society; 2000

Purchase Award; Parkersburg Art Center; Parkersburg, WV; 1999

Purchase Awards; State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio; 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

Commission; Robinson Memorial Hospital; 2004

Finalist Artist's Magazine competitions; 1994, 1998, 1999