Acquisition - City of Seattle 2010
Gallery Onyx - Fine Art Gallery
Painting: 'Seeped in Oil' - Acrylic Trip-tych
'Stop calling ME resilient. I'm NOT resilient. Because every time you say, 'oh, they're resilient,' you CAN do something else to me."
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~ Tracie Washington, New Orleans-based civil rights attorney, 2010
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Awards & Honorable Mentions
2022 Outstanding Business Award - Seattle Business
2022 Interviewed - South End Emerald Newspaper
2021 Cornish College of the Arts - Finalist - Neddy
2020 Finalist - Rachel's Catalyst Award - Environmental Advocate Award for Women of Color
2020 Awarded Participant in the RISE Cohort through Sustainable Seattle
2020 Interviewed - Crosscut
2020 Interviewed - King 5 News
2020 Interviewed - PBS News
2020 Interviewed -CNN News
2020 Interviewed - Critical Bounds Podcast
2020 Panelist Public Art Bootcamp
2019 Residency at Seattle University, Hedreen Gallery - Exhibit 'For the Record.'
2018 Accepted to Public Art Boot Camp, through Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
2018 Conductive Garboil Award, through Artist Trust and 4 Culture
2018 Accepted to Artist Residency 6-7/2018: AADK Spain International platform of research and contemporary creation, 30540 Blanca | Murcia | Spain www.aadk.es info@aadk.es www.facebook.com/AADKSpain
2018 Nominated Environmental Artist Award – Sustainable Seattle
2017 Nominated James W Ray Award - Artist Trust
2017 4 Culture Artist Community Grant Award Recipient
2017 Accepted Creative Advantage Artist Roster – Seattle Arts & Cultural Affairs
2017 Event Invitational Islandwood Multi-Cultural Environmental Event at Antioch, University – Presentation: Art as Leadership through Story & Environment
2017 Accepted City of Seattle Non-Profit Assistance Center: 9 Month Non-Profit Executive Director Cohort Training
2017 Event Invitational Speaker Presenter with International Artist Claire Tancon at Black Zone: Art as Social Justice
2016 Accepted Women on the Rise Conference
2016 Featured Artist Talk Show Radio: The New Urban Unlimited, w/ Hiawatha D
2015 Invitational Speaker/Exhibitor Whidbey Institutes Climate Collaborative Conference
2015 Art Acquisition City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture City
2014 Nominated ‘Fell From the Sky Award.’ - by Artist Marita Dingus
2014 Awarded 1st Place,e Onyx Artist Exhibition, WA State Convention and Trade Center
2014 - 2025 Accepted Ethnic Artist Roster, City of Seattle - Office of Arts and Culture
2011 - 2012 Appointed Training of the Facilitators, Professional Diversity Staff Development North Seattle Community College
2011 Awarded Classified Employee of the Year, by STARS Committee and College President; Created a Strategic College-wide 5 Year Plan for Staff Professional Development
Training based on NSCC President’s Strategic Initiative – Incorporated Sustainability,
Diversity, Learning Styles, and Emotional Intelligence Models
2010 Selected Curator National Art Show; Hollywood Hills Northshore
2010 - 2012 Nominated Standing NSCC Sustainability Committee: Sub Committees; Education Curriculum & Healthy Food on Campus Committee
2009 – 2010 Nominated Classified Staff Development Committee, Communications Chair
2004 Juried & Selected Artist Trust Edge Business Class
2002 Employee of the Month – YWCA
1991 Selected as one of the 5 artists to create the Seattle Community College Gallery Entrance Sign
