Awards & Honors

• Society of Animal Artists Award of Excellence
• 70th Academy Awards Presentation at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. Governor's Ball - by invitation only. Academy Award Nominee for Best Achievement in Visual Effects 1997, "Jurassic Park II:
  The Lost World"
• Wildlife Art Award - Wildlife Art Magazine, 1995
• 78th Academy Awards Presentation at the Kodak Theater, Los Angeles, California. Governor's Ball - by invitation only. Academy Award Nominee for Best Achievement in Visual Effects 2005, "War of the Worlds".
• Invited as a speaker to present at Prix de West 2007 ---Oklahoma's state centennial--- a PowerPoint seminar titled: "ROBERT LOUGHEED AND CLARENCE TILLENIUS: Working from Life with the Masters and the Okanagan Game Farm Experience".

Museum Collections

• National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming
• Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum of Art, Wausau, Wisconsin

Memberships

• Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
• Founding Member of the Visual Effects Society

Instructor

• "Animal Painting and Sculpting" workshop at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum,
  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2010. Demonstrations, daily Power Point presentations, and one-on-one
  instruction. This class had dual disciplines working side-by-side, sharing and comparing insights to inform and strengthen the students' talents.
• "Animal Sculpture" workshop at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California, 1995. Students worked from a live model, in addition to daily presentations on anatomy structure, movement, character, and a survey of the animal in art - demos, slides, video, and slow-motion photography were employed. First such course offered by the Academy.