Awards & Recognitions

Species: Barn Owl

Award: Second in Category

Show: Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2015)

Category: Advanced Division

Species: Green Heron

Award: Best of Show

Show: Blue Ridge Mtn Arts Association

Species: Falcon/Duck

Award: 2nd Place

Show: Southern Appalachian Artist Guild National Juried Show

Category: Sculptures

Award: Best in Show Booth Presentation

Vermont Fine Furniture and Woodworking Festival

Woodstock, VT September 2011 www.VtWoodFestival.org

Species: Barn Swallows

Award: Honorable Mention

Show: Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2011)

Category: Advanced Division

Species: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Award: 3rd Place (with cash award)

Show: Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2011)

Category: Advanced Division

Species: Wild Turkey

Award: 3rd Place (with cash award)

Show: Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2010)

Category: Advanced Division

Species: Wild Turkey

Award: First prize

Show: Southern Appalachian Artist Guild 2012 National Juried Show

Category: 3D

Species: Falcon/Duck

Award: 1st Place (with cash awards)

Show: 7th Annual Vermont Fine Furniture and Woodworking Festival (2010)

Category: Design Competition, Sculpture Division

Recognition: Photographs of this piece were recently published as part of a gallery of photos in Denny Rogers’ new reference book The Illustrated Birds of Prey, published 2007, Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc.

Species: Wild Turkey

Award: 1st place; 1st place; 1st place (three blue ribbons)

Show: Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2006)

Category: Best of Category (Upland Game Bird Miniatures); Best in Division (All Miniature Entries); Best Of Show (All Entries in the Intermediate Class)

Species: Chipping Sparrow

Award: 3rd Place

Show: Concours Quebecois d’Sculpture Oiseaux 2003

Category: Songbirds

Species: Northern Cardinals

Award: Honorable Mention

Show: Concours Quebecois d’Sculpture Oiseaux 2003

Category: Songbirds

Species: Harris’s Hawk

Award: Honorable Mention

Show: 33rd Annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2003)

Category: Intermediate Lifesize Birds of Prey

Species: Ruffed Grouse

Award: 3rd Place

Show: 33rd Annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2003)

Category: Intermediate Lifesize Upland Game Birds

Species: Harris’s Hawk

Award: 2nd Place

Show: Concours Quebecois d’Sculpture Oiseaux 2003

Category: Full-Size Birds of Prey

Species: Peregrine Falcon

Award: 2nd Place

Show: 32nd Annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2002)

Category: Novice Decorative Miniature Wildfowl – Birds of Prey

Species: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Award: 3rd Place

Show: 32nd Annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2002)

Category: Novice Decorative Lifesize Wildfowl – Songbirds A

Species: Great Horned Owl

Award: Honorable Mention

Show: 32nd Annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2002)

Category: Novice Decorative Miniature Wildfowl – Birds of Prey

Species: American Kestrel

Award: 2nd Place

Show: 31st Annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2001)

Category: Novice Decorative Lifesize Wildfowl

Species: American Kestrel

Award: 1st Place

Show: 1999 Northeast Wildlife Art Show

Category: Novice