Awards & Recognitions


	Species:	Barn Owl
	Award:	Second in Category
	Show:	Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2015)
	Category:	Advanced Division


	Species:	Wild Turkey
	Award:	First prize
	Show:	Southern Appalachian Artist Guild 2012 National Juried Show
	Category:	3D


	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 (Tied with Brian Bright Studio Furniture) 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:	Falcon/Duck
	Award:	1st Place (with cash awards)
	Show:	7th Annual Vermont Fine Furniture and Woodworking Festival (2010)
	Category:	Design Competition, Sculpture Division


	Species:	Wild Turkey
	Award:	3rd Place (with cash award)
	Show:	Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2010)
	Category:	Advanced 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.

	Award:	Best in Show Booth Presentation Vermont Fine Furniture and Woodworking Festival Woodstock, VT September 2009 www.VtWoodFestival.org


	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:	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:	Honorable Mention
	Show:	33rd Annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition (2003)
	Category:	Intermediate Lifesize Birds of Prey


	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