Recent Recognition

        Featured Artist - Piedmont Gallery,  Winston-Salem, NC    From Seed and Send:  Focus on Flowers   Aug 5 - 31, 2011 

                    w/ Chery Cratty pulp paintings 

        Honorable Mention,  14th Annual Festival of Fine Craft - Chicago Highland Park, IL.  June 26 2011 

        Honorable Mention,  Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island.  May 2011

        Award of Distinction    Mainsail Arts Festival, St. Petersburg, FL  April 17 2011

        The Galleries' "Black, White and Easily Red " invitational exhibition October 25-December 21, 2010.   Concord, NC

        The Executive Mansion  "Celebrate North Carolina Craft Exhibition"   invitational exhibition  September 8 -Oct ? 2010, Raleigh, NC

        Sparta Teapot Museum's "Autumn in the Blue Ridge"  invitational exhibition October 1 through December 19, 2009.

        Honorable Mention,  Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island.  May 2009

        Best of Show, Artsplosure 09, Raleigh, NC   May 2009

        Award of Merit, Under the Oaks - Vero Beach, FL  March 2009

        Honorable Mention, Art in the Park - Blowing Rock, NC  July 2008    

        Third Place Glass Award - Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island.  May 31, 2008 

        President's Choice Award - Artsquest,  Destin, FL   May 2008

        First Place - Award of Excellence -  Chicago, IL   45th Oakbrook Invitational Fine Art Exhibition  Sep 2007

        Second Place Glass Award - Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island.  June 1, 2007 

        Best of Show - Glass - Atlanta Dogwood Festival,  Atlanta   April 2007

        National Capital Orchid Society Juried Art Competition – Washington, DC  Oct 2006

                Best of Glass

                Eugene Griffith Award for Best of Decorative Art

                Eva Campbell Memorial Award for Best Art in Show

        Holden Arboretum Solo Exhibit    Aug 4- Sep 1, 2006

        Second Annual Venice Glass Invitational -Venice Art Center in Florida   June 23-August 15, 2006. 

                Internationally renowned blown glass artists also exhibiting Dan Dailey, Paul Stankard, Jose Chardiet and Robert Carlson, etc. 

        Sand Dollar Award at the 51^st Contemporary Art Center's Annual Boardwalk Art Show in Virginia Beach VA June 16, 2006

        First Place Glass Award -Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island. June 2006

By invitation, placement of work in the Executive Mansion Raleigh, NC  September 2010

Three works included in Contemporary Lampworking Volume III  by Nationally acclaimed Bandhu Dunham... released April 2010

TV interview  in St. Petersburg, FL April 2010 - (Move slider to 20.00 min. into video Ronnie describes his first mixed media work - Ghostly Sanctuary)

Glass sculptures for sale in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.