"Joyeux Noël" (24"H x 30"W) is included in the 50th annual juried exhibition of the Pastel Society of America -- and won the Wholesale Frame Company Award. The show posted online on September 6, 2022 (https://www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org/.../Ann.../index.html) and is open to the public at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC, from September 12-October 6 (reception on Friday evening, September 16).

As described by PSA President Jimmy Wright in his catalog introduction: "Out of 1,124 anonymous submissions, 123 artists were carefully selected by PSA Master Pastelists Marcia Holmes (LA) and Nancie King Mertz (IL), as well as by the exhibition’s lead juror, PSA Hall of Fame honoree, PSA governor, and IAPS president, Richard McKinley (OR).” My deepest gratitude to the jury of selection and to the juror of awards, Executive Director and Head Curator of the Butler Institute of American Art, Dr. Louis A. Zona. Special thanks to the Wholesale Frame Company for donating my award.