Commissioned Works Volumes (stainless steel fountain), Bicentennila Libr, Chattanooga, 2001; The Community (stainless steel), Sheriff's Bldg, Rockland Co, New York, 2002; Football Watcher (stainless steel & powder-coat), Mattoon HS, Mattoon, Ill, 2003; Limerick Herd (32 silhouettes of life-sized animals, powder-coat aluminum), four sites along dual carriageways in Co Limerick, Ireland, 2004; Mile Markers on the River Walk (9 sculptures), Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2007.
Public Works Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga; City of Chattanooga; Milwaukee Art Center; Tennessee State Mus, Tennessee; Langton's Kilkenny, Ireland.
Exhibitions Art of Tennessee, A survey of Visual Arts Through Time and in Every Region of the State, First Center Vis Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003; Watchers, Ten Sculptures by Invitation, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland; Solo exhibs, Appalachian Center Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee, 2006, Watchers River Gallery Sculpture Garden, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2006-2007 & Encounters Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, 2007.
Bibliography A Catalogue of the American Collection, Hunter Museum of Art, 85; Jim Collins Art: 1963-2003, Two Hands Art Publishing, NC, 2003; Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003.
Publications Author introduction, A Handbook to British Landscape Painters, 70; author, Women Artists in America, 18th Century to the Present, 75 & Women Artists in America II, 76.
Honors and Awards Spirit of South Award, Univ Mobile, Alabama, 2000; Broyhill Purchase Award; Cash award, Art with a Southern Drawl, Univ of Mobile, 2001 & 16th Ann Sculpture Celabration, 2001; Purchase award, The Best of Tennessee, Tennessee State Mus, 2001; Distinguished artist award, presented by Mayor Bob Corker, Chatanooga, TN, 2004; 20th Annual Sculpture Celebration (juror's cash award), Lenoir, NC, 2005.
Memberships Southern Association Sculptors (president, 70-71); Int Sculpture Center.
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