Awards
 
 
2007
Washington State Medal of Merit, Olympia, Washington
 
2006

American Craft Council Gold Medal, Plam Beach, Florida
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

2005

Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan
 

2004
Honorary Doctor of Humanities, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
 
2003
Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society, Seattle, Washington
 
2002
Gold Medal Award, National Arts Club, New York, New York
 
2001

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award, Corporate Council for the Arts/ArtsFund, Seattle, Washington
 

2000
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
 
1998
Jerusalem Prize for Arts and Letters, Friends of Bezalel, Israel's National Academy of Arts and Design, New York, New York
 
1996

Honorary Doctorate, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington

Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle, Washington

Globe Award, World Trade Center, Tacoma, Washington

Outstanding Achievement in Glass, Urban Glass Award, New York Contemporary Glass Center, New York, New York
 

1995
Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute, New York, New York
 
1994
Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement, Malibu, California
 
1993
Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus, Alumni Association, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
 
1992
Honored as the first National Living Treasure, Institute for Human Potential, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
 
1988
Honorary Doctorate, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
 
1987
Governor's Writers Award, University of Washington, Alumni Legend, Seattle, Washington
 
1986

Honorary Doctorates, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, and the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Governor's Art Award, Rhode Island

Named Fellow of the American Craft Council
 

1985
Governor's Art Award, Washington State
 
1984

President's Fellow, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Visual Artist's Award, American Council for the Arts, New York

Governor's Art Award, Washington State (with Pilchuck Glass School)
 

1983
Achievement in the Arts Award, Tacoma Arts Commission
 
1979
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 
1975

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Artist-in-Residence, Artpark, Lewiston, New York
 

1968
Fulbright Fellowship to Murano, Italy
 
1967
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, New York
 
1965
Highest Honors, American Institute of Interior Designers (now the American Society of Interior Designers)
 
1964

Seattle Weavers Guild Award, Seattle Washington

 


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