Awards:
Bar-None First Artist in Residency 2017
National Conference of Artist, 2014, Outstanding Artist Award
Jonathan Ferrera Gallery, 2007, No Dead Artist participation
Pres. Barack Obama’s Volunteer Award for her work at the African American Museum New Orleans, 2012
2007 3rd Annual Mayor’s Choice Award during Ray Nagin’s National Art Program, She won first place for her painting “Abstract Love” and also
second place for her painting “Magnolia in a Vase”
Media:
Al Jazeera America: “Painting for Justice”
Huffington Post: “Her Son is in prison, and she paints the faces of a Broken Justice System”
WRNO 89.9FM: (UNPRISONED) Stories from the System“This Louisiana Mother waits, and paints and strives to free her son”
Louisiana Weekly, front page article, 2011
Crime Watch Daily, Featured Story, 2016
Reasonable Doubt, Season Premiere, 2017
Tamara Live, Feature Guest alongside Judge Joe Brown in Memphis Tennessee
Exhibition:
Newcomb Museum of Tulane University, Per-Sister Exhibit 2019
Inside Out Exhibit (Reflections on Incarceration in Louisiana), 2018
States of Incarceration National Traveling Exhibition, Launch in New York
Hosted by The New School, 2016
States of Incarceration Hosted by University of New Orleans 2017
New Orleans Art Center, Duck Sauce Exhibit 2016
Houston Museum of African American Culture, Rising Waters 2016
Exhibit at MacArthur Foundation Event 2017