2005
Opportunity grant for project documentation, MN State Arts Board
2002
Guest Speaker, symposium DEATH MATTERS, Grinnell College, Grinnell IA
Guest Speaker, Material Witness exhibition, Goldstein Gallery, U of MN, Mpls MN
Commissioned Installation for Praxis International Conference on Family Violence
Opportunity grant to supplement Praxis commission, MN State Arts Board
2001
Presenter, Art/Culture/Nature Conference, Flagstaff, AZ
Speaker, Theological Insights Program, Wisdom Ways, College of St Catherine, St Paul MN
1999
Presenter, First International Leadership Forum On Cardiovascular Health In The 21st Century; A Focus on the Woman's Heart, The Big Island Hawaii
1997-98
Presenter at "The Artist, Therapist, Culture, and Spirit" conference, Iowa City IA
Presenter at Michael Fields Agricultural Institute's 7th Annual Urban-Rural Conference: Reclaiming the Sacred in Farming and Food, East Troy WI
Presenter at New York University Tisch School of the Arts Photography Program's Public Strategies: Public Art and Public Space, New York University, NYC, NY
Presenter at Palliative Care Conference, North Memorial Health Care, Mpls MN
Presenter at 17th Annual Cancer Conference, St. Gabriel's Hospital, Little Falls MN
Presenter at Midwest Regional Society for Photographic Education panel "Collaborative Projects: Documentary and Public Art Works," University of Minnesota, Mpls MN
1996
Leadership in Neighborhoods (LIN) grant, from St. Paul Companies for research into the role of art in healing land and body
1995
SARE Grant (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) USDA, for research work with women and land
Keynote address to The Women's Studies Conference, U of S. Dakota, Vermillion
1994
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women
1993
Project finalist for The Smithsonian Experimental Gallery in Washington D.C.
1993-94
President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Alumni Association
1991
Residency, Headlands Project Grant Recipient, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, CA
1990
Residency, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont WY
1985-89
Public Art R&D grant from Forecast Public Artworks
Panelist at "Collecting Contemporary Art in the Midwest" Conference
Two Jerome Book Arts Awards
Walker Art Center Open Studio artist