— Honors/Awards —
2022
•Spotlight Speaker for the 2022 MAEA Conference, Grand Rapids, MI
•Artist Member of South Cobb Arts Alliance—Austell, GA
•Art Juror for the 2022 West Michigan Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
2021
•Art Juror for the 2021 West Michigan Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
2020
• Featured in the 2020 edition of Women’s Lifestyle Magazine
•Art Juror for the 2020 West Michigan Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
2019
•Featured in September 2019 edition of Lifestyle of the City Grander Magazine’s digital Magazine, Dope. Black. Artists.
•Featured on the Cover of the September 2019 edition of Encore: Southwest Michigan Magazine, Where We Stand: Black artists in the spotlight
•Artwork featured on the cover of Kalamazoo Institute of Arts West Michigan Area Show 2019 Catalog
•Helen Sheridan Memorial Grand Prize, West Michigan Area Show
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
2018
•Featured in the Fall 2018 edition of Midwest Living Magazine
•Featured in the Pure Michigan Fall 2018 Travel Guide
2017
•Featured in the November 2017 edition of Women’s Lifestyle Magazine
•Nominated by the MFA faculty to deliver the Welcome Address at the 2017 Commencement Ceremony
•2nd Place, Celebration of the Arts, First United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, MI
•2nd Place, Ruminate’s Kalos Foundation Visual Art Prize, Ruminate Magazine
•Art Juror for the 2017 West Michigan Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
2016
•1st Place, South Cobb Arts Alliance National Juried Exhibition, Marietta, GA
• ArtPrize 2016 Top 20 Jurors’ Shortlist
2015
•4th Place, Celebration of the Arts, First United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, MI
2010-Current •Golden Key International Honour Society
2008-2009
•John Hanink Scholarship