AWARDS + GRANTS
My success as an artist educator is attributed in part to the many education stakeholders who acknowledge and support my creative endeavors. These recognitions provide me the opportunity to develop my scholarship, studio practice, and professional praxis to share with the field while promoting broader concepts about the validity of arts education.
AWARDS
2016 | 2016 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award
The Faculty Senate, University of North Texas
2007–2011 | Above and Beyond Award, Five Time Recipient
Columbus High School, Columbus, NE
2000 | Overall Grand Champion, Art Division
Inter-High Day Scholastic Competition, Mid-Plains Community College, North Platte, NE
GRANTS, FUNDED PROJECTS, + SCHOLARSHIPS
EXTERNAL FUNDING
2018 | NEH Summer Stipend Research Grant Program
National Endowment for the Humanities
Pedagogical decision-making in visual arts education (unfunded | 8% acceptance rate; one of two university faculty projects nominated annually)
2014–2015 | NAEA Research Grant
National Art Education Foundation, Reston, VA
Art Education Policy: Interpretation and the Negotiation of Praxis
INTRAMURAL FUNDING
2018 | UA Little Rock Research and Creative Activity Seed Grant Competition
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Developing visual arts integration strategies for the early childhood special education classroom (unfunded)