Awards/Grants

Puffin Foundation Grant for US Military Bases and Their Effect on Agricultural Communities in Japan and California. 2014.

First Place award. Same But Different, New York Center For Photographic Art, juror Darren Ching. 2014.

Honorable Mention Award. Small Images 2011, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Miki Garcia, Executive Director of the Contemporary Arts Forum, juror.

Honorable Mention Award. Art Inspired by County Parks, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, Scott Canty, curator/director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, juror. 2010.

2014

Under the Influence -- Response to Place, Santa Barbara Arts Commission Invitational, Betteravia Gallery, Santa Maria. Karen Gearhart-Jensen and Kam Jacoby, co-curators. September through January.

5 x 5: Celebrating Five Years, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art Invitational.

Off the Wall, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Women’s Board Benefit.

2012

One Night Stand, benefit for Art From Scrap, Gallery 27, Santa Barbara. August 11.
Nest, Indigo, Santa Barbara. Genny Cummings, curator. June.
Buddha Abides, Santa Barbara Frame Shop and Gallery, Lark Batteau, curator. April – June.

Garlic Man, Storefront Gallery Project, Epicure Santa Barbara, 915 State Street, Carol M. Taylor and Art Korngiebel, jurors. October through December.

The Essential Worker, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission.  Brett Leigh Dicks, curator.  March 3-September 12. 
f/9 Photographers Cooperative, Goleta Library Gallery. July.

2007

Here, There and Back Again; Photographs from Texas, Japan and California, solo show, Faulkner East Gallery, Santa Barbara Central Library. December.
Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College. Alison Saar, juror. November-December 7.
Made in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. July-October 7.
f/9 Photographers Cooperative, Goleta Library. July.
Encroachment; Interpretations of Landscape, dual show with Larry Mills, Art Resources, Santa Barbara. May-June.

2006

f/9 Photographers Cooperative, Faulkner Galleries, East and West, Santa  Barbara. October.
Succulent Mailboxes, solo show, A/B Gallery, Off-Axis, Santa Barbara. September.
f/9 Photographers Cooperative, Goleta Library. July.
Ripple, Ishida Taiseisha Hall, Kyoto, Japan. May-June.
UCSB Women’s Center First Fifty, University of California at Santa Barbara Women’s Center. Spring.
Point, Click, Laugh, call for entries, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara. Winter.

2005

Spirit Expressed, Friends Gallery, Pasadena, California. Winter.
A Day in the Life of a Woman, call for entries, University of California at Santa Barbara Women’s Center. Fall.
Circles, Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto, Japan. Fall.
Refuge, Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan. August.
My Own Wabi Sabi, Nature in Kyoto, solo show, Gallery Artislong, Kyoto, Japan. June.
Views of Mount Hiei, solo show, ICB Gallery, Kyoto, Japan. May.

2002-2003
Vines, solo show, Pro-Jex Gallery, Austin, TX.
Pearl Street Darkroom Coop Exhibitions, Austin TX.

Collections

Santa Barbara Museum of Art          A/B Gallery
Art from Scrap                                  Pro-Jex Gallery                                
Artislong Gallery                               Masahiro Amano                                                        
Ann Bennett                                      Frank Thompson

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