Commissioned by Stanford University to create a teaching model based on a 15th century chained binding in their collection (Stanford Libraries Manuscript Collection MSS codex M0413 FF BB). 2019.

Commissioned by The Caxton Club, Chicago’s bibliophilic society, to bind a copy of The Caxton Club 1895–1995: Celebrating a Century of the Book in Chicago. This binding was purchased at auction by The Newberry Library. 2015

The Model Architect: The Panic Of ’09 is one of works commissioned for Building by the Book: Book Artists Respond to Architecture & Design, sponsored Philadelphia Athenaeum and Philadelphia Center for the Book. 2009.

A design binding of the Hill Press The Raven and Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe for the University of Denver, 2009.

Edition of 10 artists books for Turning Pages: A Collection of Artists’ Books for exhibit in The Living Room, the family installation space at the Wichita Art Museum. Following the exhibit the books were added to the museum’s permanent collection. 2004.

Award for Design, The Helen Warren DeGolyer American Bookbinding Competition, Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, 2022.

Runner-up for "Best Binding" award for a binding of The Right Stuff, One Book, Many Interpretations, Chicago Public Library, 2011.

Best 3D award for Mirage, 2010 Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 2010.

Award for Excellence in Fine Binding, The Helen Warren DeGolyer American Bookbinding Competition, Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, 2009.

Purchase Award for Reunion, Maternal Legends exhibition, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR. 2008.

Purchase Award and Honorable Mention for Crossing the Divide, 2006 Rockford Midwestern, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL. 2006

Best of Show award for Bluestem, Fifth Anniversary Bright Hill Press North American Juried Book Arts Exhibition, Treadwell, NY. Jurors, Richard Minsky & Bertha Rogers. Catalog. 2006.

Purchase Award for Secrets of Flight, The Elements: Creative Energy, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, 2005.

Award of Excellence for Faster Higher Further First, Chicago Book Clinic Book and Media Show, an organization of Midwestern trade publishers, 2005.

Best of Show award for All Shook Up, Elvis Week Art Contest, Graceland, Memphis, TN, 2004.

Award of Excellence for Secrets of Flight, Chicago Book Clinic Book and Media Show, an organization of Midwestern trade publishers, 2004.

Grant from The Hillside Group, an organization promoting good computer programming practices, to produce exhibition catalog for BEAUT.E (CODE): Decoding the art of computer programming, 2002.

Merit Award, Purchase Award. 21st Biennial, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, 2001.

Artistic Merit Award for What I know/What I wonder, Women’s Works, Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL, 2000.

Excellence Award, Current Works, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, 1998.

Scholarship Award, 1997, Mentorship Program, 1996, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Best of Show, Improbable Monuments, A Salute to the Earth, Evanston Art Center, 1990.