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2009 Clayton Community Fair, Award of Merit
2003 Deer Park Community Fair, Best-in-Show
2002 Spokane Interstate Fair, Best of Category (Professional Division)
1998 Deer Park Community Fair, Reserve Champion Award
1998 Deer Park Community Fair, Best Adult Art Award
1996 Valley Community Fair, Best-in-Show
1996 Deer Park Community Fair, Best Adult Art Award
1995 Northeast Washington Fair, Best-in-Show and Judge's Choice
1995 Deer Park Community Fair, Best Over-All Youth Art Award
1995 Tri-Counties Association of the Arts Scholarship Award
1994 Spokane Interstate Fair, Honorable Mention
1993 Deer Park Community Fair, Best 4-H Art Award
1991 Evergreen State Fair, Two Merit Awards
1989 Evergreen State Fair, Merit Award
2008 Considered for article on Dog Artists Around the World in Dog Magazine July 2008
1997 Artwork for Advertising & Programs for Boise Little Theater Production
1995 Artwork for Cover of 1996 Deer Park Community Fair Premium Book
1993 Artwork for Cover of Washington State Dairy Goat Council Newsletter (Fall Issue)
1992 Artwork for Cover of Washington State Dairy Goat Council Newsletter (Spring Issue)
2010 Commissioned Paintings/Drawings (various states)
2009 Commissioned Paintings/Drawings (various states)
2008 Commissioned Paintings/Drawings (various states)
2007 Commissioned Paintings/Drawings (various states)
2006 Commissioned PaintingsDrawings (various states)
2006 Prints & Originals are now carried by Fortunes Rocks Fine Art in Guntersville, AL
2006 Prints are now carried by Misha's Pets in Lake Charles, LA
2005 Prints are now carried by the Posh Pet Boutique & SPAw in Scottsdale, AZ
2005 Prints are now carried by Fetching Boutique in Scranton, PA
2005 Prints & Originals are now carried by the HoneyPaws Dog Boutique Line in Greensboro, NC
2005 Large painting commissioned for the opening of The Grateful Dog in Florida
2005 Commissioned Paintings (various states)
2004 Commissioned Paintings (various states)
2004 Became an ebay PowerSeller
2004 Art becomes available in limited edition giclée prints
2004 Artwork for t-shirt line
2003 Giant Wall Mural for Market Street Market in Spokane, Washington
2003 Commissioned Paintings (various states)
2002 Commissioned Paintings
2001 Commissioned Paintings
2001 Started selling my art on ebay
2000 Illustrations for children's book authors (various states)
1999 Commissioned Painting in Mead, WA
1998 Illustrations for Humorous Book/Calendar in Spokane, WA
1997 Matching Pendragon banners for a set in Boise Little Theater Production
1996 Antique Look Paintings on Furniture for Business Commissioned in Spokane, WA
1995 Taught Portraiture Class to 4-H Youths in Springdale, WA
1992 - 1996 Tri-Counties Association of the Arts Member
1992 Artwork & Lettering for Signs for Private Citizens in WA, ID, and Canada
1992 Drawings Commissioned by Wildlife Photographer, Ione Down River Days in Ione, WA
1990 Drew Pattern of Nubian Dairy Goat for Wood Carver, Evergreen State Fair in Monroe, WA
2009 - Present BELA Gallery, Spokane, WA
2007-2009 The Artist Tree Gallery, Spokane, WA
2007 Spokane Interstate Fair, Spokane, WA
2007 Clayton Community Fair, Clayton, WA
2006 Spokane Interstate Fair, Spokane, WA
2005 Spokane Interstate Fair, Spokane, WA
2004 Deer Park Community Fair, Deer Park, WA
2004 Valley Community Fair, Valley, WA
2003 Market Street Market Booth & Exhibits, Spokane, WA
2002 Out of Our Minds Gallery Exhibit, Spokane, WA
1999 Silver Spur Restaurant Exhibit, Mead, WA
1997 Springdale Art in the Park (Stevens County Arts Commission), Springdale, WA
1996 Springdale Art in the Park (Stevens County Arts Commission), Springdale, WA
1995 Tri-Counties Association of the Arts Show and Exhibit, Deer Park, WA
1994 Tri-Counties Association of the Arts Show and Exhibit, Deer Park, WA
1993 Tri-Counties Association of the Arts Show and Exhibit, Deer Park, WA
1992 Ione Down River Days Booth & Exhibit, Ione, WA
1990 Evergreen State Fair, Monroe, WA
1989 Silvanna Community Fair, Silvanna, WA
1988 Evergreen State Fair, Monroe, WA
Ohio Arts Council
The Grateful Dog, The Villages, FL
Janet Wright, Spokane, WA
TJ Thompson, Spokane, WA
Kevin & Shannon Yakely, Carlsbad, CA
Elisabeth Pound, St. Paul, MN
Christopher & Corinne Duval, Poulsbo, WA
Works are also in many other private collections in all 50 US states, the Virgin Islands, in Canada, France (including Paris!), Slovenia, Russia, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, to name a few, and all over the UK and Australia.
©2010 Kimberly Helgeson Sams