Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1965 Tamarind Artist Fellowship, Ford Foundation 1970 Award, Cassandra Foundation 1980 James Van Der Zee Lifetime Achievement Award, Brandywine Workshop and Archives 1990 Sidney R. Yates Art Advocacy Award, Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation 1993 Laureate, Lincoln Academy of Illinois 1997 Artists Award, The Studio Museum in Harlem 1998 Distinguished Artist, The Union League Club of Chicago 1998 Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters 1999 Chicago African American History Maker Award, The DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago 1999 Member, National Academy of Design 2003 Harry W. Watrous Prize and Elizabeth N. Watrous Medal, National Academy of Design 2004 Archibald Motley Jr. History Maker Award for Distinction in Visual Arts, Chicago History Museum 2005 Malvina Hoffman Artists Fund Award, National Academy of Design 2009 Charlotte Dunwiddie Prize, National Academy of Design 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center 2010 Legacy Award, United Negro College Fund 2011 Ruth Horwich Award to a Famous Chicago Artist, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs 2014 Fifth Star Award, City of Chicago 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award, Howard University 2015 Alain Locke International Art Award, Detroit Institute of Arts 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, Partners for Livable Communities 2017 Legendary Landmark's Honoree, Landmarks Illinois 2022 Legends and Legacy Award, Art Institute of Chicago Honorary degrees 1972 Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 1973 Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH 1976 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1977 Illinois State University, Normal 1979 Colorado State University, Fort Collins 1982 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1984 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1986 Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL 1987 Roosevelt University, Chicago 1991 Tufts University, Medford, MA 1996 Columbia College, Chicago 1997 Governors State University, University Park, IL 2004 North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro 2007 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 2013 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 2022 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Selected works A Bridge Across and Beyond (1978), Washington, D.C. Wing Generator (1980) University of Notre Dame, Indiana Symbiosis (c. 1981), Washington, D.C. Build-Grow (1986), Jamaica, Queens, New York Build-Grow (1992), Washington, D.C. Selected public collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth Applewood-Ruth Mott Foundation, Flint, MI Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC Art Institute of Chicago Art Museum of the University of Memphis Baltimore