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1997 Co-Chair, Lone Rangers College Art Association Conference, NY
1988 Private Works for Public Spaces, Yankowitz & Jenny Dixon; R.C.Erpf Gallery, NY[3]
Awards and honors
Yankowitz received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1979 and in 1981. She was a recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1997. She was an artist in residence at the
American Academy in Rome in 2001. Yankowitz was a curatorial reviewer on a 12-person global committee team for Art Gallery/
SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong 2013. She was also the co-curator for the Chicago Art Fair 2005 Public Art Section.
United States Artists grant~Interactive team project-Pinball Brain Game Whiz 2011/12
Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 2001
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NYC 1997-8
National Endowment For the Arts, Art in Public Places 1981
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual artist grant1979
C.A.P.S. Grant, New York State Council on the Arts 1976
MacDowell Colony, NH, "Artists in Residence" 1972
Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, Mass 1977
The City Center of New York, "5 Pieces for the Stage" 1969
New York City Parks Dept., Central Park Sculpture 1969
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1997 Co-Chair, Lone Rangers College Art Association Conference, NY
1988 Private Works for Public Spaces, Yankowitz & Jenny Dixon; R.C.Erpf Gallery, NY[3]
Awards and honors
Yankowitz received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1979 and in 1981. She was a recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1997. She was an artist in residence at the
American Academy in Rome in 2001. Yankowitz was a curatorial reviewer on a 12-person global committee team for Art Gallery/
SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong 2013. She was also the co-curator for the Chicago Art Fair 2005 Public Art Section.
United States Artists grant~Interactive team project-Pinball Brain Game Whiz 2011/12
Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 2001
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NYC 1997-8
National Endowment For the Arts, Art in Public Places 1981
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual artist grant1979
C.A.P.S. Grant, New York State Council on the Arts 1976
MacDowell Colony, NH, "Artists in Residence" 1972
Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, Mass 1977
The City Center of New York, "5 Pieces for the Stage" 1969
New York City Parks Dept., Central Park Sculpture 1969