Career
Eventually became more and more interested in political art and its potential for persuasion. He was honored with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1999 and a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2008 for the realization of "On this site stood - lower Manhattan" a project to put "historical" plaques with contemporary social content around lower Manhattan in summer 2009. (link below) In 2014, he received a NYSCA grant (through the Center for Sustainable Rural Communities) for a public art installation in Schoharie County, New New York In 2015, he was awarded a NYFA fellowship for sculpture.