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Facutly Awards for Teaching

Ann La Caze

Lite Rail, 4th Avenue Station, Sacramento, CA -Installation September 2002
Public Art Workshop, City of San Jose Arts Commission,
Residency, Mendicino Art Center, 1995
Residency, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY 1994
California State Fair, Award of Excellence-Three Dimensional, 1991

Brenda N. Loule

ARTREACH 2000, an outreach & artist-in-residence program, Nelson ARTfriends, UCDavis, CA
New Work Awards Program Grant, Sacramento Metropolitan Art Commissions, Sacramento. CA, 1996
Certificate of Recognition and Commendation 1995 Fellowship Award for Visual Artists Program from Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, Sacramento, CA May 23, 1995
Resolution of the City Council from Mayor Joe Serna, Jr. Sacramento, CA May 23, 1995
The 1995 Fellowship for Visual Artists, Emerging Artist Award, S.M.A.C., Sacramento, CA 1995
Jurors Award, KVIE Channel 61995 Art Auction, Sacramento, Ca, February 1995
 Juror’s Award, Crocker-Kingsley 68th Annual Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA April 1993
Merit Award, Images and Objects, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, Ca, April 1993
Lillie Webster Squires Fellowship, Stanford University, 1992-1993
Gorden Hampton Fellowship, Stanford University, 1991-1992
Robert Mondavi Fellowship, Stanford University, 1991-1992
Edwin A. and Adalaine B. Cadogan Scholarship, The San Francisco Foundation, 1992
Juror’s Award for Two Dimensional Works, California Exposition and Sate Fair, Sacramento, CA, Aug. 1991
California State Senate Resolution from Senator Leroy Greene, September, 1991
The 1991 Rising Star Award, On the Wing Magazine, Sacramento, CA, March 1991
New Works Awards Program grant, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission Aug. 1990
Calgene Contemporary Fine Art Cash Award, Calgene Contemporary Fine Art Competition 1990,
Natsoulas/Novelozo Art Gallery, Davis, CA, July 1990
Purchase Award, CSUS 15th Annual Student Purchase Show, Sacramento, May 1990
Honorable Mention, “Auburn Arts 39”, Auburn Art Center, Auburn CA, May 1990
Merit Award, “Matrix International”, Matrix Art Gallery, Sacramento, April 1990
Student Academic Development Award, CSUS, Sacramento, March 1990
Increase Robinson Fellowship Award, CSUS, Sacramento, March 1990
1989 New Works Awards Program grant, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission May 1989 Honorable Mention, CSUS 14th Annual Student Purchase Show, Sacramento, May 1989
Special Juror’s Choice Award in Honor of Marjorie Chase Burgess, Crocker-Kingsley 63rd Annual Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA May1988

Cathy Stone

1999 New Works Award, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
1990 Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny - Six Month Residency Program, Giverny, France
1990 Headlands Center for the Arts - 3 Year Affiliate Studio - Sausalito, California
1984 Bronze medal (Sculpture), Olympic Art Festival, International Competition - Los Angeles, California

Ellen Van Fleet

California Arts Council Grant; 1983-84, 1984-85.
National Endowment for the Arts Grant; 1974.

Larry Luis Ortiz

KVIE Channel 6 Art Auction, Art selected for special Artist/Teacher collection 2002
Commendation Award by the President of Sierra College 2000
Clay Fest, Design & Carve Green Sewer Pipe for Public Art Auction 1998-00
Agro Art, Award for Agricultural Sculpture 1999
CSUS Sacramento Alumni Association, public collection 1998
Business Person of the Year, City of Auburn 1997
Mayor’s Commendation Award, City of Auburn 1997
President of Sierra College, private collection 1996
Placer County Art Patrons, commissioned to create awards 1992 thru 1995
Roseville Phone Company, commissioned to reproduce Architectural Medallions 1989
Auburn Historic Courthouse, commissioned to reproduce Architectural Medallions 1982

Lita S. Whitesel

Recipient, with art education faculty, California State University/Getty Center for Education in the Visual Arts Grant, 1990
Recipient, California State University Meritorious Performance Award for Contributions to the
Institution, 1986
Recipient, California State University Research Grant, 1976

Lynn F. Jones

1999 Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium award televised Introduction to Art class
1998 Faculty Development Grant, Sacramento City College Society of Architectural Historians Conference
          Los Angeles CA
1991 Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Oregon University of California, Santa Barbara CA Drawing           Collection
1992 Teaching Assistantship, University of Oregon
1991 Teaching Assistantship, University of Oregon
1995 Teaching Assistantship, University of California, Davis
1980 Golden Key National Honor Society

Marcelle Wiggins

1989 Award of Excellence, California New Works Exhibit
1989 Genevieve Sully Memorial Award, American Association University Women

Maria Winkler

Sabbatical Leave, Spring 1999
Teaching Fellowship for Art Professors, August 12-17, 1990, Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida
Assigned Time from the School of Arts and Sciences to restructure the course "Computer-Generated Art, Advanced Techniques", two units, Fall 1989 and Spring 1990.
Sabbatical Leave, Spring 1989
Co-Author, Grant for a new Macintosh Computer Graphics Laboratory, 1989
Curriculum Development Mini-Grant, "A Revised Graphic Design Curriculum in Computer Graphics," from the School of Arts and Sciences, 1.5 units, Spring 1988.
Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, 1987.
Affirmative Action Faculty Development Grant, CSUS, Six units Assigned Time to resume art work, 1986-87.
Academic Program Improvement Grant, Chancellor's Office, "Integration of Three Computer Graphics Courses," 1985-86.
Assigned Time for retraining in computer graphics from the School of Arts and Sciences; three units, Spring 1985.
Academic Program Improvement Grant, Chancellor's Office, "Two Computer Graphics Courses for Graphic Design," 1984-85.
Professional Development Grant, "Retraining in Computer Graphics," from the School of Arts and Sciences. Six units, Spring 1984 and six units, Fall 1985.

Selected Awards:
1993 Merit Award, A 'WASH' with Color '93 Open Show, Carmichael, CA.
1993 Gold Award, Traditional Works on Paper, Art of California Magazine Discovery Awards.
1992 Gold Award, Works on Paper, Art of California Magazine Discovery Awards.
1992 Finalist in the 1992 Painting Competition, the Artist's Magazine.
1991 Second Place in Pastels, Northern California Arts, Inc., 36th Annual Open Exhibition, Carmichael, CA.
1991 Third Place in Pastels, California Arts League 9th Annual Open Exhibit, Carmichael, CA.
1990 Second Place in Watercolor, Northern California Arts, Inc. 35th Annual Open Exhibition,Carmichael,CA
1989 Merit Award, "California Works", California State Fair, Sacramento, CA.
1989 Second Place in Watercolor, California Arts League 7th Annual Open Show, Carmichael, CA.
1988 Second Place in Watercolor, California Arts League 6th Annual Open Show, Carmichael, CA.
1980 First Place and the William Harrington Memorial Award, Northern California Arts 26th Annual Open           Show, Sacramento, CA.
1979 Third Award, International Wine & Cheese Festival Art Exhibition, Sacramento, CA. Sponsored by the           Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.
1978 Purchase Award, "Your Show," California League of Women Artists, Sacramento, CA.
1976 Honorable Mention, New Mexico International Art Exhibition, Clovis, NM.

Richard Feese

Best of Show, The American River Salmon Festival’s Art Exhibition, Oct. 1997
First Place, Sacramento Waterfront Festival, Summer, 1997

Tom Decker

First Place, 18th Annual North American Sculpture Exhibition, 1996 (Manuel Neri, juror)
Award of Meat & Purchase Award, California Collegiate Ceramics Competition, 1996 (Vincent Suez, juror)
First Place Sculpture, Triton Museum Juried Exhibition, 1995 (Rene de Guzman, juror)