Awards and Special Recognition– Judy Sprague
-2024 BEST of SHOW in PASTEL Award, Main Street Gallery Regional Fine Art Show 2024, Brighton, CO, Juror Shari Farabaugh
-2024 BEST OF SHOW Award, AVA National Gala 2024, Gillette, Wyoming, Juror Eileen Nistler
-2023 Painting Selected for Catalog Cover for Arizona Pastel Artists Assoc Annual Member Art Show, Scottsdale, Arizona
-2021 HONORABLE MENTION, Art Room Contemporary Gallery International "Faces" Exhibition, 125 works accepted from 17 countries.
-2021 - THIRD PLACE PASTEL, Chaffee Arts Open Awards Exhib/, Buena Vista, Colorado, Teresa Booth Brown, Judge
-2021 -GRAND CHAMPION, DRAWING, Chaffee County Fair, Colorado, Open Class, Fine Arts, Drawing
-2020 - Painting Selected for Annual Calendar for Sangres Art Guild, Westcliffe, CO
-2020-FIRST PLACE PEOPLES CHOICE, Third Street Gallery “Shades of Summer” Exhibition, Westcliffe, CO
-2019- Martha’s Vineyard TOP TWENTY NATIONAL DRAWING PRIZE, Massachusetts
-2018 – SECOND PLACE PASTEL, Chaffee Arts Open, Buena Vista, CO
-2018- FIRST PLACE PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD Valley Visions, Salida, CO
-2016-PAN PASTEL AWARD, Alpine Artist Holiday National, Ouray, CO
-2016-FIRST PLACE PASTEL AWARD Greeley Art Assoc. (GAA)Art from Heart, Greeley, CO
-2015-SECOND PLACE DRAWING, Longmont Artist Guild (LAG) Regional, Longmont, CO
-2015-HONORABLE MENTION DRAWING, LAG Regional, Longmont, CO
-2014-HONORABLE MENTION, Appalachian Pastel Society National, N. Carolina
-2014-FIRST PLACE DRAWING, TVAL SweetArt Show, Loveland, CO
-2014-FIRST PLACE PASTEL, GAA Art from Heart, Greeley CO
-2013-BEST OF SHOW, RSVP Artfest, Cheyenne, WY,
-2013-SECOND PLACE PASTEL, RSVP Artfest, Cheyenne, WY
-2013-FIRST PLACE DRAWING, St Stephens, Longmont CO
-2013-THIRD PLACE PASTEL, GAA Art from the Heart, Greeley CO
-2012-THIRD PLACE DRAWING, Alpine Artists Holiday National , Ouray, CO
-2012-HONORABLE MENTION DRAWING Centennial Art Gala, Greeley, CO
-2012-SECOND PLACE PASTEL, Art from Heart, Greeley, CO
-2012-PAINT AMERICA TOP 100
-2011-PAINT AMERICA TOP 50
-2011-SECOND PLACE, Arizona Pastel Artists Assoc. National, Manheim Gallery, Cottonwood, AZ
-2011-HONORABLE MENTION, PASTEL, Alpine Artists Holiday National, Ouray, Colorado
-2010-HONORABLE MENTION PASTEL, Alpine Artists Holiday National, Ouray, Colorado
-2010-THIRD PLACE GRAPHICS, St. Stephens Regional Show, Longmont, CO
-2010-SECOND PLACE MIXED MEDIA, TVAL Fall Festival, Loveland, CO
-2010-FIRST PLACE MIXED MEDIA, TVAL SweetArt Show, Loveland, CO
-2010-FIRST PLACE PASTEL, Art from Heart, Greeley, CO
-2010-FIRST PLACE PASTEL, TVAL SweetArt Show, Loveland, CO
-2009-FIRST PLACE PASTEL, Art from Heart, Greeley, CO
-2009-HONORABLE MENTION, Art from Heart, Greeley, CO
-2009-HONORABLE MENTION PASTEL, Sunny Vista National Juried Show, Colorado Springs, CO
-2009- THIRD PLACE MIXED MEDIA, TVAL SweetArt Show, Loveland, CO
-2009-SECOND PLACE PASTEL, TVAL June Regional, Loveland, CO
-2009-HONORABLE MENTION MIXED MEDIA, TVAL June Regional, Loveland, CO
-2008-SECOND PLACE PASTEL, Greeley Art & Music Festival, Greeley,
-2008 -FIRST PLACE MIXED MEDIA, TVAL SweetArt Show, Loveland, CO
-2007-FIRST PLACE PASTEL, Greeley Art & Music Festival, Greeley, CO
-2007-THIRD PLACE MIXED MEDIA, TVAL Fall Festival, Loveland, CO
-2007-JUROR'S CHOICE, PASTEL, TVAL June Regional, Loveland, CO
-2007-FIRST PLACE DRAWING, Art from the Heart, Greeley, CO
-2006-FIRST PLACE AWARD, Art & Music Festival, Greeley, CO
-2006-PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD, Art & Music Festival, Greeley, CO
-2005-FIRST PLACE, Black Canyon Regional Exhibit, Hotchkiss, CO
-2005-THIRD PLACE, Black Canyon Regional Exhibit, Hotchkiss, CO