Recent Recognition
Southern Edge Magazine's Spring issue. March 2021
Judges Choice Bethesda Fine Arts Festival Bethesda, MD May 10, 2019
Merit Award Under the Oaks Art Show Vero Beach, FL March 9, 2019
Wilkes Art Gallery Taken By Heart, Given By Hand Ward Nichols and Ronnie Hughes Oct 28 Dec 2017
Focus Gallery - "Inspiring Earth's Mysteries" Folk Art Center Asheville, NC August 12- October 31, 2017
Award of Excellence Orchard Lake Fine Art Show West Bloomfield, MI July 29, 2017
** Best of Glass Award 56th Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff St. Joseph, MI July 9, 2017
Award of Merit Mainsail Art Festival St. Petersburg, FL April 17, 2016
Award of Distinction Bonita Springs Art Festival, Bonita Springs, FL January 31, 2016
"Possibilities" Exhibit in The Gallery - Ashe Arts Center - West Jefferson, NC Feb 20 - Mar 20, 2015
3 D Honorable Mention Ann Arbor State Street Art Fair Ann Arbor, MI July 20, 2014
Award of Excellence 41st Art Festival Beth-El St.Petersburg, FL February 2, 2014
Lifefoms" Exhibition travels to the Merwin and Wakeley Galleries at Illinois Wesleyan U. (Chicago area) May 7 - August 20, 2014
Lifefoms" Exhibition travels to the National Liberty Museum's Gallery 321 Philadelphia, PA January 14 - April 13 2014
Selection into juried exhibition: "Lifeforms" Exhibition - Hodge Gallery: Pittsburg Glass Center July 5- November 11, 2013 .
Award of Merit, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, PA July 2012
"Liberty in Bloom" - A Glass Flower Show National Liberty Museum Philadelphia, PA March 4-April 29, 2012
Award of Merit, Under the Oaks - Vero Beach, FL March 2012
Featured Artist - Piedmont Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC From Seed and Send: Focus on Flowers Aug 5 - 31, 2011
w/ Chery Cratty pulp paintings
Honorable Mention, 14th Annual Festival of Fine Craft - Chicago Highland Park, IL. June 26 2011
Honorable Mention, Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island. May 2011
Award of Distinction Mainsail Arts Festival, St. Petersburg, FL April 17 2011
The Galleries' "Black, White and Easily Red " invitational exhibition October 25-December 21, 2010. Concord, NC
The Executive Mansion "Celebrate North Carolina Craft Exhibition" invitational exhibition September 8 -Oct ? 2010, Raleigh, NC
Sparta Teapot Museum's "Autumn in the Blue Ridge" invitational exhibition October 1 through December 19, 2009.
Honorable Mention, Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island. May 2009
Best of Show, Artsplosure 09, Raleigh, NC May 2009
Award of Merit, Under the Oaks - Vero Beach, FL March 2009
Honorable Mention, Art in the Park - Blowing Rock, NC July 2008
Third Place Glass Award - Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island. May 31, 2008
President's Choice Award - Artsquest, Destin, FL May 2008
First Place - Award of Excellence - Chicago, IL 45th Oakbrook Invitational Fine Art Exhibition Sep 2007
Second Place Glass Award - Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island. June 1, 2007
Best of Show - Glass - Atlanta Dogwood Festival, Atlanta April 2007
National Capital Orchid Society Juried Art Competition Washington, DC Oct 2006
Best of Glass
Eugene Griffith Award for Best of Decorative Art
Eva Campbell Memorial Award
for Best Art in Show
Holden Arboretum Solo Exhibit Aug 4- Sep 1, 2006
Second Annual Venice Glass Invitational -Venice Art Center in Florida June 23-August 15, 2006.
Internationally renowned blown glass
artists also exhibiting Dan Dailey, Paul Stankard, Jose Chardiet and Robert
Carlson, etc.
Sand Dollar Award at the 51st Contemporary Art Center's Annual Boardwalk Art Show in Virginia Beach VA June 16, 2006
First Place Glass Award -Cincinnati Summerfair, Coney Island. June 2006
By invitation, Western North Carolina Studio Glass Exhibition, Jailhouse Gallery June 2 - July 11, 2014
By invitation, placement of work in the Executive Mansion Raleigh, NC September 2010
Three works included in Contemporary Lampworking Volume III by Nationally acclaimed Bandhu Dunham... released April 2010
TV interview in St. Petersburg, FL April 2010 - (Move slider to 20.00 min. into video Ronnie describes his first mixed media work - Ghostly Sanctuary)
Philharmonic Center for the Arts - Naples Florida
Clyde Butcher Big Cypress Gallery, Tamiami Trail, Fl
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh
