SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

• Listed in the 28th Edition of the Marquis Who’s Who in American Art. December 2007.

• Best of Show, Western Spirit Art Show and Sale. Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum. Cheyenne, Wyoming. February 22, 1997.

• Best Oil, Western Spirit Art Show and Sale. Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum. Cheyenne, Wyoming. February 22, 1997.

• Gallery Award, Western Spirit Art Show and Sale. Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum. Cheyenne, Wyoming. February 22, 1997.

• Second Place, Drawing. The Best and Brightest. Scottsdale, Arizona. February 6, 1997.

• Best of Show. St. Jude's Fine Arts Exhibition. Farmington, New Mexico. November 22, 1996.

• First Place, Drawing. St. Jude's Fine Arts Exhibition. Farmington, New Mexico. November 22, 1996.

• Honorable Mention in Oil Painting, Western Spirit Art Show & Sale. Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum. Cheyenne, Wyoming. February 28, 1996.

• Best Drawing/Pastel, Western Regional Art Show and Sale, Thirteenth Annual. Frontier Days Old West Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming. February 1994. Juried by Fritz White, CAA.

• Third Place, Artists Alpine Holiday, Thirty-third Annual. Ouray, Colorado. August 1993. Judged and Juried by Philip Pearlstein.

• Second Place, 'ATSA/League of Southwest Artists Exhibition, Farmington Museum. Farmington, New Mexico. June 1993.

• Third Place, Strokes of Genius Juried Fine Art Show, Seventh Annual. Scottsdale, Arizona. March 1993.

• Best of Show, Northwest New Mexico Arts Council Juried Art Show. December 1992.

• Best of Show, Museum Director's Choice, Contemporary Sculpture, Farmington Museum. Farmington, New Mexico. November 1991.

• Third Place, Gathering of the Arts. July 1990.

• Best of Show, Northern Navajo Fair. Shiprock, New Mexico, October 1988.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Aux Trois Crayons: The History, Science, and Technique of the Three Naturally-occurring Chalks in Traditional 14th-19th Century Old Master Drawing. Presentation given to the curators and conservators of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 24, 2008.

• A Year in Review: The National Academy of Professional Plein Air Painters, Deborah Chapin, NAPPAP 2007.

• Wildlife Art Show Slated for May. Betty Johnson, The Californian North County Times, April 6, 2007.

• Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Natural Red Chalk: Correlating the Physical Structure to the Working Properties. Presentation given to the Conservators at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 27, 2007.

• The Complex Metalpoint Drawing Technique of Jan van Eyck. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 27, 2006.

• Overview of Old Master Metalpoint Drawing Materials and Techniques. Public presentation, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, April 26, 2006.

• New Research into Complex Northern European Metalpoint Drawing Materials and Techniques of the Early 15th Century. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, April 25, 2006.

• Northern European Metalpoint Drawing Technique in the 14-15th Century: Scientific Validation of the Historical Record. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 28, 2006.

• The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Book, and Other Works on Paper / Max Schweidler; Translated, Edited, and with an appendix by Roy Perkinson. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2006.

• Documentation of the Nature and Use of Multi-pointed Metalpoint Drawing Styli Prior to the Biedermeier Period. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 27, 2005.

• Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century Examples of the use of Multi-pointed Metalpoint Drawing Styli. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, May 26, 2005.

• The Nature and Origins of Metalpoint Drawing Materials. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 26, 2004.

• Traditional Renaissance Metal Alloys used as Metalpoint Drawing Materials with References from the First to the Seventeenth Century. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, April 29, 2004.

• Art of the West, September-October 2003, volume 16, number 6.

• New Mexico Magazine, September 2003, Volume 81, Number 9.

• Off Hours, the Four Corners Entertainment Guide, Feature Article , September 12, 2003.

• The Importance and Variety of Uses of Phragmites Comminus, the Common Reed, as an Early Renaissance Drawing Material. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Straus Center for Conservation, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 21, 2002.

• Metalpoint Drawing Materials with References from the First to the Seventeenth Century. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Straus Center for Conservation, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 26, 2001.

• Daylight Fade Testing of Eight Old Master Drawing Inks with an Evaluation of Ultraviolet Filtering Glazing Protection. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Straus Center for Conservation, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 23, 2001.

• Accelerated Fading Testing of Old Master Drawing Inks. Presentation given to the curators and conservators at the Straus Center for Conservation, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 4, 2000.

• Tamarind: Forty Years. Marjorie Devon, Editor. University of New Mexico Press, March 2000.

• Origins and Use of Early Renaissance Drawing Materials presentation given to the curators and conservators at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Museum of Art at the Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 27, 1999.

• Ancient and Medieval Drawing Inks and Tools. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 26, 1999.

• Old Master Metalpoint Drawing Tools and Metalpoint Paper Preparations. Fogg Museum of Art’s Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 1, 1998.

• Behind the Line, The Material and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Edward Saywell, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Fall 1998, Volume VI, Number 2.

• Touchstone, 200 Years of Artists’ Lithographs, Marjorie B. Cohn and Clare I. Rogan. Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998.

• Grounds on Paper: An Examination of Eight Early Drawings. Penley Knipe, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

• Southwest Art, January 1998.

• Southwest Art, May 1997.

• Off Hours, the Four Corners Entertainment Guide, November 1996.

• Stageline, The Old West Museum Newsletter, Cover Feature, February - March 1995.

• Revue Magazine, Feature Article, Winter, 1994.

• Cross Currents, June 1993.

• KSJE FM, Radio Interview, June 1993.

• KSJE FM, Radio Interview, June 1992.

• Antiques and Fine Arts, September/October 1991

• Detroit Magazine, Cover Feature, September 1977.

• The Michigan Daily, Cover Feature, October 1973.