“A Good Life” MS • Joy Beckner

Purchase Award, The Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO, from The Bennington Center for the Arts, Art of the Animal Kingdom V Exhibition.

Purchase Award, The Galleries of The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal and Forrest County, MS, The City of Hattiesburg & The Hattiesburg Cultural Partnership, National Small Sculpture Exhibition 2000.

Leonard J. Meiselman Memorial Award for Realistic Sculpture, Society of Animal Artists, Inc., 40th Annual Members Exhibition and National Museum Tour & Exhibition.

Audubon Silver Medal of Honor, Audubon Artists Inc. 58th Annual Exhibition, NYC.

National Geographic Society, Washington, DC. Encore exhibition of the Society of Animal Artists’ 2000-2001 National Tour.

2021 ARC Salon Finalist! “A Good Life” MW, The Art Renewal Center wrote this: “Congratulations to all of our 15th International ARC Salon Finalists. This year we have 1006 finalist works by 640 artists, representing 32% of 4941 works submitted from 83 countries! I am honored.