Grants and Awards
GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS and FUNDED PROJECTS
2023 Community Engaged Learning Grant Collateral Healing Wholism, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
2026-2023 Art, innovation, and Design: Project-Based Learning Toward a Sustainable Future Development Project. Lead Artist and Project Developer, Funding from the Virginia A Groot Foundation, Evanston, IL, $300,000.
2013-2009 Artist Project: Regenerate Solid Materials from all natural and synthetic fiber including plastic. Industrial Application Research: Product testing, Business Plan Developed. Funding: Diamond Productions, 4810 Rue Jean-Talon, Montreal, Quebec H4p 2N5, CA $500,000
2009 Artist Project: Making boards from Ethanol Production Byproducts R&D. Funded: Ron Fagen, Fagen, Inc. 501 W. Hwy 212 Granite Falls, MN, $750,000.
2006 Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, 525 Florence Ave, Owatonna, MN
2005 Vanguard Award Nominee, 525 Florence Ave, Owatonna, MN
2004 Job- Z Award, All Paper Recycling, Inc. Le Center, MN
1998 Jerome Foundation travel Grant England, Egypt and Seychelles Island, St. Paul, MN
1996 Office of Environmental Assistance, “Turning Paper into Wood”, High production Facility Development. St. Paul, MN, $65,000
1995 Fingerhut Corporation, Design and create a system for turning waste paper/fiber byproducts into shipping pallets. St. Cloud, MN $45,000
1994 Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Grant, Paper and cloth/fabric byproducts into Relief Sculpture, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
1993 Charles A. & Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation Grant, Development of a House Concept parts made from Fiber, Berkeley Springs, WV.
1991 Blandin Fellowship, 100 N Pokegama Ave, Grand Rapids, MN
1991 Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Grant, Holography and Fiber/ Sculpture, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
1989 Jerome Foundation Visual Arts Travel and Study Grant, Around the world with the WORLD ART PROJECT®, St. Paul, MN
1989 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, First Place, Evanston, IL
1988 Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Grant, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
1987 National Endowment for the Arts/ Rockefeller Foundation, Regional, UC Video, Minneapolis, MN
1986 Jerome Book Art Fellowship, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1986 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, St. Paul, MN
1985 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, St. Paul, MN
1984 McKnight Foundation Grant, Sculpture, Minneapolis, MN
1983 New Works Project Grant, Installation/Sculpture, St. Paul, MN
1980 The New Science Museum Project, Who Dwells In The Flood, First Artist to be Featured at The Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, $15,000.
1980 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, St. Paul, MN