"He has won over twenty-five prizes or honors for excellence in over sixty juried or invitational exhibitions. His clay work is included in many private collections in this country and abroad as well as the permanent collections of the Milwaukee Art Center, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and Southwest State University, Marshall, Minnesota. He has been a guest artist-speaker and exhibition juror on numerous occasions. He has written for Ceramics Monthly magazine and Leon Nigrosh's book Low Fire, wherein his unique blackware firing process and drum kiln are described, along with photographs of his work. The late Dorothy Adlow, art critic for the Christian Science Monitor, described him as a "man with imagination, discrimination and true talent.