Award's and Honors

• Invited Artists:  Smithsonian Permanent White House Collection 1999

• Work in two different White House Adminisrations

• Selected Artists:  "200 Best Traditional Craftsmen in America", yearly since 1991, Early American Life magazine, including 2002

• Many "Best of Show" awards, including Power's Crossroads 2000, Newnan, GA.,  twice at the prestigious   Waterford Tour and 18th C. Craft Fair, Waterford, VA and Westerville, OH. Music & Arts Festival, Heritage Division

• Instructors:  John C. Campbell Folk School, Master Artists' Sessions

• Invited Artists for major Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Shows, including:
  George Washington's Mt. Vernon 18th C. Marketplace
  Decatur House Museum 19th C. Marketplace, National Trust for Historic  Pres.
  The Designer Craftsmen Show of Philadelphia
  The Designer Craftsmen Show of Boston
  Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX.
  Waterford (Va.) Historic Tour & Craft Festival
  Powers Crossroads Arts & Crafts Festival
  Wilton, CT., Historical Show

• Collected by various museums, including the Smithsonian; Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, Ca.; YOrktown, Va. Settlement Museum; N.C. Museum of Handcrafts; Scotchtown and Abe Lincoln's Home, New Salem, IL.; many curators and historians

• Invited Artist, The Best of Tennessee Crafts, 2002 Biennial Exhibition, Hunter Musuem, Chattanooga, Tenn.

• Published in various magazines:  Early American Life; Country America; Country Folk Art; Back Home; Southern Living; Mountain Life

• Authors of two books by Schiffer Publishing Co.:  Sculpting Traditional Bowls, 1993, and Hewing Contemporary Bowls, 1995.

• Television appearances:  CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, the Dolly Parton Thanksgiving Special, The Nashville Network with Mike Snyder, PM Magazine

• Grandparents of eight:  Jillian Mann Bailey; Brittany Diane Corn; Erik Wayne Corn; G. Stone Corn; Lauren Caroline Gray; Heath Robert Gray; Rhys Mann; Wyatt Gray.