Awards

(Recent, selected. For a complete list, please visit the Curriculum Vitae tab.)

2025

  • Third Place, Salmagundi Club, Summer Travels Exhibition, New York, NY

  • Bronze Medal, Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition, Master Signature Division, Awarded by Patrick Saunders

2024

  • Landscape Award of Excellence, Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional

  • Best Use of Light and Color, National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society

  • Western Art and Architecture Award of Excellence, American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Awarded by Carolyn Anderson

  • Distinguished Achievement Award, American Women Artists, Expanding Horizons Juried Show

2023

  • First Place, Signature Member Award, American Impressionist Society Online Exhibition

  • Silver Award, Art in the Open Festival

  • Alden Bryan Memorial Prize, Salmagundi Club New York 193rd Annual Members’ Show

2022

  • Second Place, Pause apre-midi, American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Awarded by Huihan Liu

  • Art of the West Award, American Women Artists, Breaking Through: The Rise of Women Artists, Awarded by Terri Jordan, Jim Hoobler, and Susan Tinney.

  • Best Architecture Award, Paint the Town, Dickson


2021

  • Best Cityscape, Pause apre-midi, Oil Painters of America Salon, Awarded by Charles Young Walls

  • $15,000 Grand Prize, Safe Harbor, Plein air Salon 10th Annual Awards

  • People’s Choice, Headin’ Home, Plein air Salon 10th Annual Award

  •  3rd Place, Safe Harbor, American Women Artists’ Spring Online Showcase

  •  3rd Place, Safe Harbor, January Bold Brush Competition

2020

  • Sicilian Roots: NOAPS 2020 Spring International Online Exhibition, Best Use of Light and Color awarded by Del-Bourre Bach

  • Summer Cut, First Place Best Floral, Plein air Salon, awarded by Diane Waterhouse

  • Merit Award, NOAPS Fall Online Showcase, awarded by Larry DeGraff

  • 1st Place Overall, Safe Harbor, October Plein air Salon Competition, awarded by Karen Hewitt

  • 1st Place Overall, Safe Harbor, November Plein air Salon Competition, awarded by Cynthia McBride

2019

  • Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. Material Certificate, Salmagundi Club Annual Members’ Exhibition

2018

  • Award of Merit, American Impressionist Society, Awarded by Dawn Whitelaw

  • National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Small Paintings Exhibition, Award of Excellence, Awarded by Dawn Whitelaw

  • Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational, Kaanapali Land Management Corp Award

2017

  • Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, Finalist, Still Life

  • Art Muse Contest Master Class Finalist, Awarded by Stanka Kordic

  • Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, 4th Place, Landscape

2016

  • American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition 2016, Plein Air Magazine Award of Excellence, Awarded by Calvin Liang

  • Art Muse Contest, Master Class Finalist, Awarded by Terry Miura

  • Artists' Choice Best of Show Award for Permanent Collection, Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational

  • Forgotten Coast en Plein air 2016 , Third Place, Quick Draw, Awarded by Jean Stern

  • Art Muse Contest, Master Class Finalist, Awarded by Greg LaRock

  • All Along the Sierra Exhibition, First Place, Awarded by Carrie Brewster

  • Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational, Irvine Museum Award, Awarded by Jean Stern

  • Art Muse Contest, Master Class Finalist, Awarded by Ken DeWaard

2015

  • BoldBrush Competition, FineArtStudioOnline, 3rd Place, Awarded by Eric Bowman

  • Plein air Salon, Best Landscape, Dec/Jan, Awarded by Gary Haynes

  • Oil Painters of America, Fall Online Showcase, Honorable Mention, Awarded by Kevin Beilfuss

  • Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, 5th Place, Landscape

  • Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, 4th Honorable Mention, Still Life

  • Judge, Door County Plein air Invitational, Door County, WI

  • Oil Painters of America Summer Online Showcase, 3rd Place, September 2015, Awarded by Kathy Anderson

  • Plein Air Salon, Best Depiction of Water, April/May 2015, Awarded by David Leadman

  • Oil Painters of America Spring Online Showcase, Honorable Mention, 2015, Awarded by Elizabeth Pollie,

  • Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, High Museum Judge's Award, Awarded by Ken Brenneman, April 2015

  • Plein Air Magazine Salon, Honorable Mention Annual Awards, 2014

  • Plein Air Salon, Plein Air to Studio Award, Best Buildings Awarded by Ken Auster, Dec/Jan 2015

When I first met Lori, she had just put aside another life to dedicate herself to painting. She went out on a limb, not knowing where it might lead, risking everything. I don’t think I’ve met another artist who is more dedicated and determined. She took what she was taught and expanded on it, uniquely adding her own colors and expressions. As a result, her paintings are filled with joy and bravura.
— Quang Ho