| Honors |
| 1970 | Guggenheim Foundation Fellow |
| 1970-1972 | Corcoran Gallery of Art Fellow |
| 1971, 1977 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellow |
| 1975 | Ossabaw Island Project |
| 1981 | Australia Arts Council Fellow |
| 1983 | Visiting Alumna, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA |
| 1985 | Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC |
| 1987 | Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
| 1988 | Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, St. MaryÕs College of Maryland, MD |
| 1990-1991 | Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, MD |
| 1991 | Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 1995 | Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Parsons, New School for Social Research, New York, NY |
| 1998 | Miriam Schultz Grunfeld Visiting Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA |
| 1974, 1975, 1978, 1983, 1996, 1999, 2001 | Yaddo |
| 2003 | The Cather Medal, University of Nebraska |
| Associations |
| 1977-2004 | Member, Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, New York |
| 1980-1986 | Director, Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, New York |
| 1980-2004 | Advisory Board, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL |
| 1984 | Yaddo, Acting Executive Director, March - December |
