Fiber Artist and Designer, Current -2012; Recipient of Award in Excellence and Best in Fiber Category, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art Show, 2022; Best in Category, Merit Award, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, 2022, as well as Best of Fiber Category awards in several other national contemporary art shows. Founder and Owner of Thomas Ashfield Galleries, Richmond, Virginia and Charlottesville, Virginia, 1998 - 2011.